A4 prints of collage & acrylic by Lindsay Merlihan. The Orphan provokes tenderness and deep love.The Orphan speaks to us all. We are amidst healing a global disconnection from our Home, our Mother, our natural world. This severance of spirit and loss of our innocent child and wild self has indeed been wounding - and as we look around we still have much work to do.Isolation, abandonment, extinction, homelessness and the refugee crisis speak for our universal orphanage. Within this core wound concerning disconnection - we are most certainly connected. We've recently experienced this same paradox within quarantine periods of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many have experienced this challenging period of isolation to be a time which birthed creativity, innovative ways to care for one another and connection to home, earth and a simpler life. These serve as remedies to the Orphan.The Indian Holi Festival, or Festival of Colours, celebrates good over evil, the blossoming of love, creativity, laughter and play. It is a time where broken relationships are mended, debts paid or annulled, forgiveness extended, where friend and foe unite.A man freshly coloured stands over a metropolis of worker bees enjoying life's true honey.Embrace your Orphan, welcome them deeply into the Home of your heart. Play there in a space of child-like wonder or rest there tenderly and know you are not alone.