Sitting in a public place, praying, meditating, holding silence, reflecting, contemplating - whatever you call it - is a very simple but very special thing to do. I sat and contemplated/prayed with some lovely people from XR Huddersfield and Calderdale in July. Being still, sitting on a camping chair in St George’s Square, outside Huddersfield Railway Station was pretty much all that I did, action bordering on inaction, but it was a rich and powerful thing to do. Who was there ? Well I didn't really bother too much looking for labels. I am a Christian, I know there was at least one Roman Catholic woman there, and some Quakers also turned up with a banner. We were all rebels, precious human beings and that was the shared ground on which we met. The organiser had come up with the title ‘Mourning our Dying Planet’ and that was what had attracted me. As I had felt my energy for climate activism fade over the previous few months, I wanted to return to …. well, a quiet place, a desert ...
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