in response to Linda France’s Bracelet of Twenty-Four Charms

+ A boon for the nights of darkness honouring mystery

+ A boon for the frogs to multiply in Spring

+ A boon for the wordless beggars with plastic cups, may they be filled

+ A boon for the living dead who’ve lost their voice

+ A boon for the ash trees to come back and flourish again

+ A boon to banish indifference, hatred and greed

+ A boon to increase habitats for all of us earthlings

+ A boon for made-up recipes from left-overs

+ A boon for cafes and restaurants without musak

+ A boon to cause a ceasefire everywhere, and ban the arms trade

+ A boon for not knowing all the answers most of the time

+ A boon for open-ended questions that lead to more questions

+ A boon for overcoming addiction to screens, to sugar, to buying too many things

+ A boon for worms to multiply and enrich our soil

+ A boon for all our farms to grow organic and open more allotments

+ A boon for re-foresting Scotland, Africa, everywhere

+ A boon to insist that politicians speak the truth

+ A boon to stop digging for oil and coal, promote renewables

+ A boon for many ways of moving bodies and minds towards healthy living

+ A boon to ban cars from our inner cities

+ A boon for bees lost by mobile signals to find their way home

+ A boon to encourage us all to stop look & listen to our heart’s longing for freedom

+ A boon to do nothing, stand still, sit, walk away from despair and make more boons

Sukhema