Hellooo there,
Thanks for stopping by...
Well, I'm feeling the need to vent today my friends, so please bear with me during this rather challenging period....but I have a rather desperate need to sound off here, when I take in the current state of the world...
So we are all living through a global pandemic, which none of us have lived through before, I get that; but here in Britain we the 'general public' are also having to live through the fall-out from a bunch of self-deluded, power- hungry individuals, who claim to be 'running' the country....?? That I can NEVER get... Please do not claim to have things 'under control' when we look at the number of victims who have lost their lives to Covid-19 and when we see those on the margins of society pushed even further to the edge (where next for them to go??). Of course the country had to go into lockdown, like every other country...this is about people's LIVES here and keeping people safe...but why did it take SO long for Britain to get on board, look beyond this island and see how others were responding??
I'm afraid POLITICS got in the way my friend...and lives were lost..that makes me want to weep...but please, don't abandon me yet any Tory readers, stay with me...!
So now we are all talking about the 'new normal' and indeed we are having time to 'pause and reflect' here (as we would at Sunday church..but that's all gone too..). And I think it's good to pause and reflect and think...well, what's important here and equally what is not??
What should we value and what should we let go? Personally, more than ever, I value the relationships I have with my family, friends and the wider world...for that is all that really matters at the end of the day, if you think about it..and further, therein lies the real power to change things for the better for everyone....
Cormac, my autistic son, simply does not 'get' dishonesty or injustice...why should that exist? (I love it). So he'd struggle 'getting' a lot of governments in the world today. He's devised his own lockdown playlist, in no particular order:
What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong.
Dancing Queen by ABBA.
It's a brief playlist that continues on a very regular loop....but hey, I'm loving the words that lie within both these songs...it is fundamentally indeed, a wonderful world and when the time is right you simply can and must dance in it....
Vent over!......thanks for reading...hope we can keep in touch...whatever your political persuasion....
Until the next episode, take good care,
Ciara
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