Greetings all as I return from a nice couple of days by the coast which was rather pleasant. In the meantime let's share the love and kudos with Anna, Jo, Shilpa and Vicky for stopping by on my previous post and liking, loving, sharing, commenting and of course reading my thoughts.
It seems the current incumbents who allegedly run this land of ours lurch from one fiasco to another and if it were not so serious it would be comical beyond words. However, their buffoonery has left many looking at some real scary times ahead with the worry of heating or eating a real concern. Truly, something has to change does it not?
Anyhow, what springs to mind for me is how that once upon a time there was a sense of community. It has evaporated but I wonder if all this chaos may perhaps invoke that spirit once again. If you go back a few hundred years, many would gather around a fire in a great hall and share tales, talk and invite a spirit of camaraderie. It could be argued that there's a case to invoke that spirit once again.
Imagine in your neighbourhood where perhaps the village hall or some other place of gathering could be opened for the local populace to gather round, share heat, food perhaps and of course company before returning to their fridge of a home. It would mean a departure from isolationism and to a feeling of togetherness and could it work? There is no reason why it couldn't but we may have to leave our technology alone for a while and get to know our neighbours.
We do live in an age where our best friends are little pieces of technology that sit in our hands. We can of course chat with each other in that fashion and it does work but you cannot beat the physical and social interaction of being there in person in somewhere where it's heated well with subsided food on offer too. Sounds like fantasy doesn't it, but just maybe, that could be explored.
Well, time for me to go for now and to get back into the swing of things as I've a busy few days coming up, least of all tonight with development group which is always most entertaining. Until next I type adieu and remember keep readings.
Things to be grateful for.
A nice couple of days down by the sea
Fabulous weather
A chance to reconnect.
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