A Deep Sadness & A New Beginning
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back.
As we continue our shared journey into the past, I must confess revisiting these moments has stirred emotions I thought long settled. But we are not alone in this. Together, we're walking through it, step by step. It wasn’t long after the events of "Researching With Luna" that everything shifted. In my mid-20s, life turned sharply, and the days grew heavy with questions I wasn’t ready to answer. I needed direction, something to anchor me. So I dug deep isolated myself, focused solely on finding a sense of purpose. I won't shy away from saying it: I struggled. Deeply. But I endured. I overcame. And I learned, as we often do, that we are rarely as alone as we believe.
Decomposing Waste & A Deep Sadness
What followed were weeks of painful solitude. A life once crowded with family chaos became a silent echo chamber. Everything that could go wrong… did. Murphy’s Law became more than just a phrase it was my lived reality. In those early days, I turned inward for healing, retreating once more to the landscapes I knew best. But the woods had changed. Litter was everywhere. A pungent smell of decay clung to the air. That sight that smell it brought a crushing sadness. The land was suffering. And through that suffering, it mirrored my own.
A Plan To Re-Wild Begins
Then something unexpected happened. Amidst the discarded plastics and broken glass, I felt something ignite a surge of emotion so intense it felt like an emotional supernova. Anger, disappointment, isolation… all of it erupted at once. The neglect of the land, the fly-tipping, the absence of care it was too much to ignore. For months prior, I had seen campaigns urging us to do more for our communities, for the Earth. And in that moment, I knew: this was where my energy needed to go. Lunacare Cymru: Media was already in the making. My photography diploma was nearing completion. The signs had been there all along. From that day forward, the mission became clear: to restore and rewild Pont-Y-Pandy Woodlands. Not just as a project, but as a promise to the land, to myself, and to those who would walk this path after me and so Ladies and Gentlemen, until the next time... Take care.
Michael “Druid” Thomas
Lunacare Cymru | Media - Blog
