22/04/2026
Today, on Earth Day, I’d like to share this sweet photo of my beloved island Ibiza taken somewhere in the seventies, around the time when my mum first set foot on her red earth and fell in love.
It was a time before designer bags, private jets, fillers, VIP lounges, Rolexes and gas chugging SUV’s, when my mum, as she tells me, would put on cowboy boots over her pyjama pants to go dancing at open air club KU, at the time an explosion of creativity (and nudity haha), now mega club UNVRS.
Many of the roads were unpaved, and the hundreds of “calas” were little unspoiled pieces of paradise, free from water consuming hotel chains, cruise boats and high fenced villas.
I can count myself lucky to have experienced the tail-end of those times in the late eighties and nineties, when we could still leave the house unlocked and the sheep could wander free over the fence-free land. I used to have a lizard friend who would show up every day at 4:30pm after we’d come home from school for a piece pf tomato. The island’s endemic species of lizards is now in severe danger of extinction because of imported olive trees from the mainland carrying snakes who eat them.
Also spirituality seemed less about self gain; in a way more humble, authentic, devotional and land & community oriented.
It breaks my heart so see and feel what has become of this island. And still, she doesn’t cease to blind me with her natural beauty. 😭🙌🏼🩵
And this is just one of the many places of incredible beauty and magical diversity on this planet we get to call Home.
With all our heart and might, let’s protect what is left of her, Mother Earth, who provides us, entirely freely and abundantly, with all we need. Literally. Food, water, fresh air to breathe. Life itself. Even magical mind-altering plants and fungi to help us heal. I mean, you can’t make this up. It is a paradise here and we get to live in it.
It’s all that matters, really. If you commit to something, anything at all in this lifetime, commit to protect Her. To re-diversify Her. To regenerate Her. To fall back in love with Her.
1st photo: El campo de Ibiza, 1970’s, Credit: El Baile.
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