Gavin Greenoak, Byron Bay.
In view of the Byron Shire Council election result, could it be that we are beginning to realise that the community to which we belong includes billions of other creatures? And that this nature, is our nature? They don’t need us but we need them, and to know this profoundly is to come into our own, as well as theirs.
This growing realization of our belonging, way transcends politics, and is the beginning of real intelligence, and an experience of beauty and creative possibility also a healing joy for so many wounds.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
