‽istis reclaims and wonders: belongings (weekending November 20th 2021)
In a week
...with a day when a record number of migrants crossed the Channel (1)
and perhaps the ‘push’ factors of home devastation or danger linked to the working out of geo-political manoeuvrings of Empires, nations, ruling majority peoples and parties, minorities empowered and sustained perhaps unsustainably, or those in opposition, excluded and minoritised into action - over decades and centuries - the tipping back and forth of power held, retained, acquired or sought…
perhaps meet the ‘pull’ factors of perceived safety, wealth, opportunity, freedoms, the ‘homeland’, of friends and family who have gone before
...when a hire van is booked to help with a final clearing of furniture and furnishings, books, photos, ‘knick knacks’ that represent a life of a parent who has now also gone before
Then ‽istis ponders belonging and belongings... the ‘stuff’ of life accumulated, on show, cluttering, archived, stored away, lost or left.
And when the ‘things’ have gone; when all we have is:
what we can wear or what we can carry across cold, grey, deep, dangerous seas in a small rucksack that may have to be ditched;
what we can remember
the echo of influences and experiences, encounters and relationships - lodged within - hidden, exposed, deep or raw, for worse or for better
each other in memory or, if fortunate, in person
...then what do we have‽
And ‽istis wondered and pondered on... into a future unknown to us all - the currently safe, the currently desperate; floundering or waving.
© Pistis
NB: further reflections and comments linked to this week’s theme and past blog
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