‽istis wonders about continuity and change (weekending
September 11th 2021)
Over this past fortnight
· as one who has loved even before the very beginning, and was loved - is half lost
· as Afghanistan’s governance diverts, or reverts or converts
· as one-time colleagues are met after 17 years, and the conversation just resumes
‽istis wonders:
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what perhaps stays the same, what perhaps changes?
‽ what are the possible ‘residual messages’ we form and hold and carry, that filter and shape (about the world and the way it works, about people and the way they work, about the nature of knowledge and vice versa, about matter and all that matters) that may or may not be affected by new encounters (people, knowledge, experiences) - confirming, complexifying, challenging, creating…?
‽ how might
I, how might you, how might ‘we’, how might others (if others there continue to
be) be both the same and yet different?
‽ what perhaps
remains when awareness, comprehension and faculties fade and ‘the plot’ seems
lost save for snatches of poetry, etched deeply; the identity found now only in
relationships – mother to a daughter, mother to a son; faith that there is more
and better, that reunity will be?
And perhaps, possibly maybe there is a
realisation of utter connectedness and the boundaries of independence (body,
mind, spirit, agency, responsibility…) found, as it may not be on earth.
© Pistis
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