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moment that you look a little bit inherent value of the action and not
closer … some of those tiny particles in any optimism or pessimism about
that look like beach sand are in fact the future … One of the things I
micro-plastics … nurdles want to talk about is Groendal
.. and they spilled in Kwazulu Natal, wilderness area … the source. That’s
and they are ending up on our … the sacred place the pilgrimage is
beaches. They are everywhere. And leading towards, and there’s
that was shocking to me … In the something about that place … a
second and third pilgrimages … we genius loci (the spirit of the place) …
introduced a moment of activity … something inspirational …
beach clean-ups. We didn’t have something sacred … and I think …
that in the first pilgrimage, and it part of the ingredients that enabled
was a good addition … it gave the the social bonding to happen was
sense that there was something, moving into that space at the end
small, that you could actively do … and absorbing the genius loci of the
Is it going to help in the long term? place … Every participant was willing
… No… [But] it is not necessarily the to step into something … to have
outcome that motivates you … the the courage to open themselves up
motivation for … acting in whatever to an experience without really
way you can … has to do with the having a good sense of what this
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