Written in the era of the first Earth Day and the birth of the modern environmental movement, (and before the runaway hit American Pie for which he is better known), Tapestry is Don McLean’s sober reminder that everything good, healthy and worthwhile is deeply interconnected, fragile and needs our protection.
“Every thread of creation is held in position
by still other strands of things living
In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline
of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar”
It’s part angry protest song, part reflection on interdependence. On the fragile web that holds everything in place.
If you work in an environmental charity right now, you are quite literally holding some of the most vulnerable threads in that tapestry.
And the point isn’t that one strand can fix everything. It’s that none of them stand alone.
Charities. Funders. Communities. Planet.
No sides. Just shared responsibility.
This is the tapestry Raiser is weaving.
