Hi, I am the Edge's Technical Director and Forum Moderator. If you have any issues with the website or forum please email me When I'm not carrying out voluntary work for the Edge, I am writing for magazines or writing countryside books. I am, by trade, a  freelance countryside journalist, author and photographer, but I have an equal passion in searching for truth and trying to demolish the walls of corporate and government propaganda. I love to climb, trek and camp as it brings me closer to the natural world. I am also an anti toxics and human rights campaigner and acted as a consultant for the book to the left of this text. Written by the lawyers of Britain's top, environment and human rights law firm "Leigh Day & Co"  Environmental Action: A Citizens' Guide  examines all aspects of the legal process available to individuals and pressure groups in their struggle to resist polluters, defilers and road-builders.

Below is a selection of my photographs.

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I like to write and sing songs also.

 

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I like to write prose also.

Tolerance and the Common Good

Although I have come to this conclusion by walking a different path and not the road of mainstream doctrine would you be prepared to tolerate and accept my views on love, peace, harmony and respect, knowing they lead to the same place? If I said I saw the creator's spirit in the wind, the birds that fly and the swaying of a forest canopy in a summer breeze. If I told you that I love humanity, I love the wildlife in nature and if I could, for just one fleeting moment, have the energy to halt the demonic tide I might just sleep at night without a tear, knowing that at least one child has not suffered and one more tree remains aloft. If I stated to you I am NOT evil for seeking a solitary path to God. If I explained to you that I didn't find God in a stone church, I recognized his creation in the mountains of my home. I saw his beauty in the skylark hovering over my local moorland and I understood his spirit in the form of an elderly Mother Superior when she cradled a lost a child in her arms. Would you agree your concept of God is similar to my concept of the Infinite Spirit of Creation? If I told you I wasn't a Christian would you still agree and quite possibly be someone I can call friend? And, if after all of that, you still hate colored skin, despise the thoughts of others, loathe at creed or disgust at the difference of sexuality; you have surely lost a wondrous safe haven.

For an open understanding nurtures tolerance and then friendship
Thus we sculpture a kindred twine
From these twines of friendship we fashion bonds of love and this love says:
‘I cherish your thoughts even though they may bring forth a hard learning.’
‘I value your words even if at first I do not understand.’
‘I admire you perspective of life as I admire the life in the oak-wood of my home.’
Thus the bonds are strengthened.

From these bonds and twines we assemble a protected space akin to the sheltered entwines of the willow branch; and this space says:
‘Do not worry of your anger for I recognize your pain.’
‘Do not shame of your tears for I understand your hurt.’
‘Do not care of your embarrassment for I empathize with your humiliation.’
‘For I have also trod that seemingly solitary path.’

And if after all of that you urge to turn your back 'cause you feel righteous in your facts and arrogance, then please question the demonic pain you bring upon your fellow kind and be aware of the one who pulls the ebb and flow of the demonic tide. Understand how these dark waters can engulf us with your bitterness, anger and hatred. Understand the drowned and putrid odor of rotting love, harmony, innocence.

And if after all of that a glimmer of understanding caresses your heart, please return to the sheltered willow grove so we may both share your pain and shed your tears, for I have also trod that seemingly solitary path.........Friend!

For a kindred friendship is stronger than the ancient trees of the oldest oak-wood.
Thus we become rooted in a contented loam; and this strength says:
‘We can work to bring about change, for change is the only universal constant.’
‘We can labor to cradle and love all those who suffer.’
‘We can toil in the fields of despair in the hope our voices will be heard.’
‘For we all need to tread this seemingly arduous path and this road need not be in solitude. This road is the common ground of humanity that we all share.