Mabon 2001 Newsletter Editorial

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, ye it is our own meditation that must form our judgment.
Dr I. Watts

Welcome again to another edition of your state newsletter. I hope that if you live on the north coast that you have not been hit too hard by the double dose of flooding in February and March. It has been a very hot and wet summer all over NSW, and autumn will be a welcome relief from the humidity! It has been reported in the Sydney Morning Herald recently that Sydney has just experienced it's third hottest summer on records, so no wonder I feel like I'm melting most days!! I'm forever glad that the wheel moves onwards, and change is always in the air. And that is certainly what we can look forward to over the next few months - changing seasons, leaves changing colour and falling to the ground, changing energy levels as we head into winter and changing appetites that vary with the weather. (Though I feel like my summer of cricket will never finish, with the tests in India and the Ashes Tour to begin shortly. Do we notice the seasons less or more in a global community?)

What's happening in your backyard, or on your balcony this season? How are you marking the seasons in your life?

Blessed Be,
Adrianne Harris, NSW co-ordinator