Acknowledgments and Testimonials

Thank you from us:

When Her Ladyship and I started out on this assignment over a year ago, neither of us had much in the way of tech skills. She seemed to be leaving all the tech to me, herself showing no interest nor initiative as to how to get the work actually out into a world that seems so much in need of it. My tech skills were, and still are, dinosauric.

Thankfully, in stepped Paul Owens from Digimark

Paul saved me from hours of frustration trying to figure out how to navigate my way around all this tech-speak, unfamiliar symbols and the ever present possibility of me wiping out all the work at the touch of a button. He took it on with such ease.

As the initial feedback trickled in about this website, many people have commented about the beauty and simplicity of the site itself. I have to agree with them. I love it.

What people don’t see is the hours of time that Paul has given so willingly to get this work right. He has an immensely calming, can-do approach and the tech skills to match.

For the countless times I changed my mind about an image or a heading or the order of the chapters and all the times you so quickly returned my call when I got stuck – my immense gratitude to you Paul Owens.

Thank you for your patience, the quality of your listening to hear what I was striving for, but mostly for your generosity and kindness.

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Thanks to Proffessor John Barry at Queens University in Belfast for reading our first draft, for our conversations and for your invitation for me to speak to the students. The audience was small in number but their response let me see that the work has come at the time it is most needed.

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Thank you to Phil Kearney Byrne, Marie O’Kelly, Marcelle Holdaway, Neil Foulkes, Sara Jane Kingston and Anja Rosler for reading the work, sharing the work and for the immensely helpful conversations and feedbacks along the way. A special thanks to Sita Toolan for your original gift that set me on the path of a website to hold the work.

To the many people I’ve encountered who  asked questions and showed such interest in this work. Your listening helped me to hear what was being said. Thank you for your enthusiastic encouragement.

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To the woodland community surrounding my life – for supplying the motivation to perservere at the computer when I’d rather be out scything or tending the forest. The brambles, nettles, song birds, spiders, the fox, badgers, buzzards, water-boatmen, crested grebes, clouds, the unstoppable ash regeneration, all the elderly trees and all else of nature.  Special thanks to the red squirrels for your lightness of spirit and for giving me a good laugh every single day.

This work is all for you.  HL and JA

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Feedback and Testimonials:

* ‘I attended your talk at Carrick-on-Shannon. The exercise we did with the tree, for those few minutes, has started me on a road of awareness of what is around me. I have never looked again at a tree in the same way. Thank you Jan for awakening me.’  –  ‘Regarding your website, your writing and message is clear and simple, easy to read but oh so powerful. I’m looking forward to reading the rest and going back to read from the beginning again!!’    Annie Curbelo Lang, County Roscommon                

* Re RfN website: ‘I love it! I read it this morning and it’s staying with me as I go through my hectic habitual day.’ Margie, Sydney Australia

* ‘It’s the thing I’ve felt most hopeful about for ages -I can’t remember how long. You have managed to articulate something so cleanly and so clearly.’ Phil, Co. Clare

* ‘This is very inspirational indeed and provocative in it’s refreshing clarity. Expansive energy for sure.’ Anne Marie, County Sligo

* ‘I just had a look at Jan’s website. It is truly one of the best things I’ve read on this subject… I can hear her saying these words, speaking to me as I read it. I love how she talks about nature. That video of her forest on the Home Page really captures something that I’ve only felt a few times.’ Kathryn, Sydney, Australia

* ‘I was very moved by the opening and her dialogue with Her Ladyship. And I’m very taken by the chapter about Burnam Burnam.  It is a beautiful site.’ Mary, Sheffield, England