‽istis
reclaims resolution (weekending January 4th 2020)
‽istis stopped trying to work out the number of fireworks attached to prominent landmarks, the manner of their attachment and the potential infrastructural impact on, say, Europe’s apparently tallest cantilevered observation wheel… and pondered a process whereby hope and wish might just possibly, perhaps, maybe become will - and where will might find a way
‽ perhaps there could
be a formula for calculating the point at which ‘just because you can’ becomes
‘doesn’t mean that you should’
‽ possibly someone might
work out a way to understand the means by which theory becomes on-the-ground,
tangible, make-a-difference-to-lives practice in areas such as ensuring
equality, exercising compassion or promoting rights
‽ maybe in 2020,
clarity of vision - looking beyond the short-term and the vested interests of
‘people like us’ (or those who have lent a vote) to a wider ‘we’ in a systemic
world – might align with political imperative (legitimated through thoroughly considered
and scrutinized legislation; adequately and equitably resourced; reparative and
restorative; informed by evidence and experts and evaluated for its impact and
outcome, not just by input)
And ‽istis, newly resolved, decided to try to act – to be the change and to see whether practice, if not making perfect, might yet help to make a difference…
© Pistis
