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Lundy
Island by Reuters photographer, Phil Noble
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“Clouds remind us to be joyful,” Skinner starts
again. “To pause and glory in nature, which is beautiful and good.”
She could be talking about Lundy itself, a
place seemingly frozen in a more innocent time: no paved roads and hardly any
cars, an island lifted straight out of a children’s book about a summer
adventure in a world without care.
The entire congregation at this Sunday service,
from a Singaporean couple to Skinner herself, are members of a group called the
Cloud Appreciation Society. They’ve traveled here with a simple plan: to look
up at the skies above. Far from the noise of political division and climate
catastrophe, the island offers an escape – and also a reminder of all there is
to lose in an era of environmental change caused by humans, the Age of the
Anthropocene. --- Reuters
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