Lorcan McDermott sent ECI this update:
Our Season of Creation walk explored the river Dodder from Donnybrook to Ringsend. As the river is tidal up to Ballsbridge there is a range of biodiversity, especially birdlife visible. We also saw the engineering works which have been completed along the riverbanks, a response to the increasing risk of flooding, another effect of climate change.
One of our Season of Creation zoom worships included Patrick Kavanagh’s Canal Bank Walk. In the poem he gives a challenging image of relating to nature.
O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.