El Pueblo Magico
I have started on a small and important project. Which makes me think of Winnie-the-pooh… he seemed to be constantly having small, surprising and important (in a very understated kind of way) adventures.
The new project is El Pueblo Magico. It includes my 4 favourite things:
Beauty
Imagination
Mystery
Nature
El Pueblo Magico is a section of my garden. At its heart is a mandala of medicinal plants surrounded by a sensory walking path that is part beach stones, part sand, part bamboo. There’s a small doorway a child can fit through made of drift wood and bones that I’ve begun to paint with bright colours. In one of the trees beside it there is a platform with water for the monkeys who visit to eat the blossoms and aceituna fruit in dry season (they haven’t discovered their new watering hole but I hope they will). And nearby are the raised river rock garden beds and my plant nursery full of medicinal herbs.
Beauty is not part of the culture I’m surrounded by in Central America. I don’t understand why not. Shouldn’t beauty be at the core of our homes and our work spaces? (I actually do understand why beauty isn’t made important if I answer the question with my mind, but my heart will never understand).
This week kids arrived for nature class and there were gasps of joy as they took their shoes off and walked and crawled through the tiny doorway and began their barefoot walk-run-tip toe.
El Pueblo Magico is like a small prayer to beauty and imagination.
From my garden project to your heart I wish you many moments of taking beauty seriously this week.
Lucy
p.s. If you happen to be in Nicaragua and want to send your kids to El Pubelo Magico nature camp here’s the link: https://lucypaget.com/farm
p.p.s. Last week I offered a free class recording of one of my recent movement medicine classes - you are still welcome to it… check
the last substack post and you’ll find it