‽istis
reclaims secure bases and safe havens (weekending January 25th 2020)
‽istis contemplated
‽
the perhaps incalculable impact of the harbour wall on the safety of the
fishing boats;
‽
why, after basic hydration and nutrition, possibly love matters more than
anything to the development of a new born baby and that secure attachments
might just provide the foundations to change the world (thank you again Gerhardt[i]
and Bruce Perry[ii]);
‽ how,
maybe, the lockdown measures of the authorities in Wuhan[iii]
and its c. 11million residents mirror the actions of the good citizens of Eyam
some 365 years earlier[iv] but
with added closure of the subway, airport and train stations and the
disinfection of lifts carrying residents home with the remaining face masks and
supplies - to evade the coronavirus and its potentially fiendish mutating ways.
And ‽istis wondered which of the 500 lohan faces would be glimpsed first when Wuhan’s Temple of Original Purity[v] opens again: relief at safety from an infection avoided? inconsolable anguish for the lost? sadness at the c.700,000 Annual Prayer-Giving tourist intercessions uttered elsewhere or not at all this year – including supplications perhaps, possibly, maybe for the millions of people across the world for whom a secure base may not always be the same as a safe haven.
© Pistis
