‽istis ponders
matters micro (weekending October 15th 2022)
This week ‽istis ponders
matters ‘micro’ and possible relations with matters ‘macro’.
If ‽istis had not heard the news, not seen the ‘socials’
or encountered and not learned anything at first hand, then what might be some
of the week’s preoccupations‽
‽
Insights into the crisis point in the support and care of an elderly and ailing
parent lightened by a lifelong love of musicals – lyrics and melodies (and even the occasional harmony) floating up
from somewhere deep to bloom into shared voice again
‽
A dog, happy to go to the kennels for a night and very happy to return;
happiness ‘squared’ and shared
‽
An expensive bottle of ‘AdBlu’, 32.5% urea (you might like to add your own
punchline); a grocery bill – fewer items, greater cost
‽
Looking at a book – how to draw; finding new ways to illustrate and convey
‽
Reading with a grandchild – penguin facts, penguin anthropomorphism, morality-transference
and perceptions of the ways of the world waddling into a developing mind
‽
The joy of batting a balloon, blowing bubbles and sharing eggy bread
‽
The transformative power of a sparkly and besequinned hair scrunchie
‽
Learning about the decline of the local fishing fleet, a wreck once upon a
time, the everyday life of an RNLI crew member
‽
Working out the chords and finding the audacity to write a second verse to a U2
song[i] – pondering thunderclouds
and rain but also, now perhaps, possibly may be wondering at lifting clouds and
sun:
1)
Sleep. Sleep
to-night.
And
may your dreams be realised.
If
the thundercloud – passes rain,
So
let it rain
Rain
down on here.
Mmm-mmm,
So
let it be.
Mmm-mmm,
So
let it be.
2)
Sleep. Sleep to-night.
And
may your dreams be realised.
If
the lifting clouds – bring sun,
So
let it shine
Shine
down on here.
Mmm-mmm,
So
let it shine.
Mmm-mmm,
Shine
down on here…
Shine
down on here…
Shine
down on here, etc.
And this week, both near and direct as well as far
and indirect – yet seemingly having an effect through some mysterious dynamic between macro
and micro – there has been (perhaps) both thunderclouds passing rain, but (possibly)
also lifting clouds bringing sun. Such is the way of the world, said the
penguin (maybe)‽
©
‽istis
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