Stuck In The Middle
It’s months now since this bolt from the blue arrived and arrested our way of living. And let’s face it, we were previously pretty blasé as we went about day to day – taking certain things for granted and sticking […]
The Confinement Chronicles
Easy, right?
Is anyone else feeling a pervasive sense of helplessness? Does anyone else feel that we’re massively on the wrong trajectory and heading towards certain plunder of (all of) the species – us very much included? Can anyone else not quite […]
Decentralisation One Step At A Time
During one of the frequent phone conversations with my mother, from her comfy position in the arm-chair wise words emerged, “the problem is big for one person to solve…”. And of course Mum’s right – ‘the problem’ is too big […]
A Different Mental Construct
I talked here about our infinite interconnectedness. It’s worth taking a look and grasping the essence of this prior to reading this piece, as it is our interconnectedness which makes this whole virus thing such a challenge to get our […]
Infinite Interconnectedness
When we get really quiet we can see it clearly. We can ‘see’ – or at least perceive – the expansiveness of our interconnectedness. Actually, it shouldn’t even take much to re-cognise it – to be become cognisant of it, […]
Seeing Through The Story
The reason why this whole virus-lockdown-pandemic has been quite so powerful in crippling to our usual functions is because it has various different, yet inextricably linked, forms. The first form is the invisible-to-the-naked-eye pathogen. This is what we perceive ourselves […]
History Repeating
If you’re watching carefully, history is repeating itself. There are some very minor caveats to the repetition…but what’s most interesting is that there’s also a huge, sideways moving motion which might just save the day. The trends which are infiltrating […]
The Walls of Separation
Do you love a surprise? Even a bad one…? Do you relish a challenge? One that takes you out of your familiar comfort zone…? How are you handling the daily, weekly raft of bomb-shell-sequalae of new news? Brushing it off […]
Perplexing Paradoxes
Watching some dialogues play out in the ‘social scape’, there have been some particularly hardnosed, divisive lines – you know, things like family members shunning each other because they’ve had the audacity to ‘question’ things… Perhaps, rather than demonishing anyone, […]
Concern
There’s such concern in the world at the moment Clearly, there’s the concern over health. Two to three months on though and whether the real concern should be over the ‘possibility’ of illness or whether our concern should be geared […]