Sunday Blog 173 – 23 Feb 2025
When darling husband mentioned the UK Prime Minister’s name this week and I didn’t know who he was talking about, I thought perhaps I’d taken my news and current affairs sabbatical too far.
With the same tentative gesture of venturing into the shed, pulling a box from its long-held position on the shelf to see how many cockroaches are underneath it, I ventured in briefly.
But even a toe dip into current affairs requires significant amounts of yoga, breathing and lying in the dark on the shakti mat with an eye bag firmly weighting my scorched eyeballs afterwards. And yet, we mustn’t look away.
So the only comfort I can find is the perspective of history. That we have been through upheavals and entire nation wrong-headedness before.
Well, it’s a sort-of comfort. Binge-listening to Heather Cox Richardson’s Democracy Awakening for five hours before bedtime perhaps was a dramatic over-correction.
So there was nothing for it but to return to my usual night-time listening of Tara Brach. Her reminder via Thich Nhat Hanh to keep our lights burning, never let the world dim our lights was important for me.
Where ever you are in your immersion into world affairs from full-body to a tiny toe-dip like me, here’s to your light blazing.