I didn’t expect to find community in a white Welsh town in the mountains – but it set me free 🖊️ KiranSidhu41 via ipaperviews
I never thought I could. I didn’t put up a fight when I left. Years ago, I would have kicked and screamed. It was not a desirable move but a necessary one. In those years, in between the death of my mother and leaving, the idea that I was in a position to desire anything felt unbelievably luxurious. I ran to the hills to Caer Cadwgan: a B&B that sits on a hilltop inThe spring we moved to Wales was a season of exploring.
Driving up the mountain range, we spotted an old stone church with 1838 carved above the door. Further on, a makeshift sign said: “Peacocks crossing – drive slowly.” We didn’t see the peacocks, but we heard them. The peacock is the national bird of India, where my heritage is, and on holidays there I had heard their calls. How funny to hear this strange and exotic sound in what seemed like the deepest part of Wales; a mishmash of the foreign and familiar.
Any reservations that I might have had about being a non-white person in a white environment instantly feel insignificant. We recognise our finitude when we are standing next to a mountain or the sea. There is a certain humility that fills us when we stand in ancient woodlands.where I now live are one of the more remote parts of the British Isles, described by writers in past centuries as “the green desert of Wales”.
My husband, Simon sat down beside me. There was no point being here, away from London, if we weren’t prepared to give some part of ourselves up to nature and the simple act of being still.
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