I’ve been staggering with shock lately at the viral firestorm that will clearly be with us long after the NEXT festival is cancelled. There will certainly be no donations to the silent auction ever again. Because zoos and restaurants and museums will be clinging by their fingernails if indeed they manage to survive at all. It’s a dark and terrible time with no hope in sight.
So I comforted myself on working with Chris Jones poem yesterday and was fairly happy with how it came out. Amazing what they let you do with free tools on the internet. I was even happier when he responded overwhelmed and grateful this morning. That makes a nice way to start the day.
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I’m sure this will be used by the good folks at the Beaver Trust some way soon. It’s a funny thing. I first began to communicate with Chris when I saw Derek Gow berating him affectionately on FB. Then I learned that his farm is very near where Jon went to school in Cornwall and where his grandfather retired. There are something Facebook is horrible at, but it has a few salient uses.
I was shocked to read Chris’ bio on the beaver trust. Besides being a farmer who also writes poetry he has had an impressive resume, He must be a horse of VERY MANY COLORS indeed.
Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a farmer and ecologist based in Mid Cornwall. He has worked as a policeman in Africa, as a forester in SW England, as a drilling fluids engineer in the North Sea, Middle East and Africa, and as a theme running throughout as a farmer in Cornwall. He has been interested in the idea of reintroducing beavers to the UK for many years, and has been practically involved setting up and running the Cornwall Beaver Project with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Exeter University since 2014.
