Nurturing nature and the arts

This is the good NEWS – Ed

Long, long ago, when the world was new and early man roamed the African savannah, both predator and prey, he was entirely dependent on the circumstances and vagaries of his natural environment.

Eventually he learnt that if he was to survive, he would have to overcome the obstacles and become the hunter more frequently than the hunted.

There was something that made him different from most other animals: he realised that he lived in a physical as well as a spirit world and that somehow the two were connected. To survive, you had to have access to both worlds. So, while he was developing more effective hunting tools, he was also trying to understand this duality.

He started to paint on the walls of the caves where he slept, honouring the spirits of the animals which gave him life, and at night he and his family sang and danced in the light of the moon.

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