‽istis reclaims a year in a wonder-ing life… (weekending July 11th 2020)
‽stis wonders what a difference a year makes...
‽ A year of blog entries
including ‘reclaiming’:
·
sport
·
the Earth
·
humility and
caution
·
the emergency services
·
electricity
·
international
days
·
education
·
clichés: the ‘comfort
zone’
·
cause or
symptom
·
the lectern
·
showing your
working out
·
defecation
·
keeping the
peace
·
a good night’s
sleep
·
ratification
·
the moment
before
·
white poppies
·
intolerance
·
distrust of ‘Great
Men’
·
black from red
·
election
interviews
·
the view
through the Overton Window
·
advent
·
the space
between
·
resolution
·
wonder
·
vital
statistics
·
secure bases,
safe havens
·
the state of
nations, or nations in a state
·
a bright,
bright spotlight
·
levelling up
·
‘kind’
·
self-isolation,
the spirit of Eyam and redeemed and sanctified ‘webbery’
·
the right to
be wild, the responsibility to be livid
·
naming and
framing and re-building Babel
·
as ‘them’ and ‘us’
becomes a greater ‘we’?
·
a lighter
tone?
·
an appreciation
– of hands
·
sound and
silence
·
‘the next
slide please’ and downturning curves
·
100 years and
a sense of history
·
a tone and a
tune for the times
·
‘only connect’
·
seeks to avoid:
‘then a miracle occurs’
·
apples and
apples
·
kneels in
shame and guilt and contrition
·
problematic
history, statues and memorials
·
C.O.W.P.A.Ts
·
pandemic vital
statistics
·
the Fourth of
July and another way?
‽ A year of family expanded by another generation and a
generation somehow not lost; life and death – perhaps ‘true’ universals?
‽ A year of responsibilities: shed or changed… but
what responsibility some have assumed or carried – visibly or hidden, sung or
unsung, accountable or otherwise
‽ A year of gently untying the social
bonds of a small community; relocation, almost; new communities found, virtually;
relatively little disruption unlike for so many: lives and families and livelihoods
and locale never to be the same again
‽ A year of ideas and
beliefs and values: challenged, confirmed, complexified, created
‽ A year: pre-Covid-19 pandemic / during-Covid-19 pandemic /
post-this-pandemic… maybe?
‽ A year
when just perhaps the ground has shifted? possibly the tectonic plates on which manybodies’ worlds rest have moved a little? maybe some of the constructs and
narratives and meta-narratives (and all that may follow) are being put under a
spotlight powered by new sources of energy; deconstructed and examined,
re-constructed, newly built - new stories, new ways of telling…? For some (the usually immune, those for whom
the dice are usually loaded favourably) maybe a new uncertainty; for others the
same uncertainty and vulnerability and fragility and against-loaded dice and inequality
and exclusion and lack of voice and power…
And ‽stis ponders on: wondering? and wonder-ing!
‽
© Pistis
NB: further reflections linked to this week’s theme
and past blog
entries to be found on Twitter: replies, retweets (which don’t necessarily
indicate approval, sometimes the very opposite!) and ‘likes’: @Pistis_wonders
