About

Maybe you are looking at this because you care about what is happening at Standing Rock, the Sioux reservation in North Dakota, U.S. Maybe you want to know more about it and about the people who are committed to peacefully protecting the water from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

There has been very little mainstream news coverage, and yet protecting the clean water on our planet is relevant to us all, wherever we live.

I will be setting out from London in December 2016 and joining those brave water protectors to lend a hand and some support. I will be meeting some of the women and men who are living there, I will be listening to them and posting notes and photos for you to read.

I am a woman in my 50’s, the mother of two grown up daughters, who thinks about the legacy we are leaving for the generations to come. I have worked as an aromatherapist and a cook and I ran a retreat centre in Devon. Despite not going to university when I left school (I went to farm in Italy aged 16 and stayed there for 14 years) I graduated with an MA in creative writing after getting inspired while accompanying my daughter to an open day at her university.

Over 180 Native American tribes have gathered at Standing Rock, joined by many others from all over the world, including visits from the Aztecs and tribes from the Amazon; people all coming together in solidarity, people standing up for all of us. Every living plant, animal and person needs clean water to thrive.

I am inspired by the call coming from many indigenous communities all over the world, a call getting ever louder, for us to listen, to wake up, to care for our one and only home, Earth, with her beautiful waters, her forests and her mountains, to treat our companions, the animals, with respect, to act responsibly for the seven generations ahead.

If you are interested, please go to https://www.wisecook.co.uk/blog to read more of my writings.