Anna Wade – For all that she has done at Boomtown not only in helping us as a family to return there and talk about El, year after year … but also for the incredible amount of hard work she has put into the drugs awareness education on the Boomtown website (so much better than Ask Frank) and for bringing in the Loop. A Super-babe who has never touched a drug in her life, working tirelessly for the safety of those who do – without judgement.
The core Glastonbury Yoga Team – the ones who turn up for practice each morning, who keep the yoga classes going all through the day, on time, all day, every day throughout every Glastonbury Festival. Who might even on occasion help me roll up the carpets when it rains!
Saskia Kent at Boomtown – Saskia was El’s `Gaia Mother’ and continues to inhabit her role with unalloyed dedication. I see Saskia as our protector. Boomtown could be a scary place – but as long as I know that Saskia is pounding the fields engaging people in meaningful and insightful conversations about El, life, ketamine, the universe and everything – we feel safe.
Steph, Kim and Bindi – Just a typical quiet moment in our tent at the back of the Yoga tent, Glastonbury Festival … we are bound to eternity by our love of El. We are the ones who refuse to curl up and die (tempting though it is sometimes …).
Saskia Hopping and Jemel at the Green Gathering, 2019 – which is forever sacred in my mind as it was the last gathering we (myself, El and Bindi) went to, on the weekend before El died. I found Saskia and Jemel doing some Acro-Yoga in the Yoga tent. I wanted to put their picture in the book as an example of the beautiful ways in which Yoga has infiltrated every aspect of society – but alas, there wasn’t room. So here they are.
Cuthbert the Snake – Again, it would have been nice to have had Cuthbert the corn-snake and his lovely owner in the book … no space there, but gratitude here! Though I am not keen on snakes, they are magnificent creatures.
