In a Time of Crisis, What is Strange and what is New?
25/04/20 14:13
photo credit: amber, my 8 years old daughter
Strange days, ask for strange ways. This may simply mean to become curious about something new. A new perspective. A new gesture. Or a new habit.
For us humans, the familiar has generally and unfortunately been not sustainable and thus, not life- giving. Over millennia we normalised a way of living that is strange or alienated from the natural world. Overtime, what was initially strange became familiar.
Now, that we are stricken by pandemic and obliged to re-evaluate our habits - hey, suddenly there's space for something strange but maybe with a taste of ancient, to emerge.
When new spaces are created, it's up to us how we fill them.
So the question is this: what new habits, new customs or new traditions do you wish to cultivate and bring forth into your life?
For us humans, the familiar has generally and unfortunately been not sustainable and thus, not life- giving. Over millennia we normalised a way of living that is strange or alienated from the natural world. Overtime, what was initially strange became familiar.
Now, that we are stricken by pandemic and obliged to re-evaluate our habits - hey, suddenly there's space for something strange but maybe with a taste of ancient, to emerge.
When new spaces are created, it's up to us how we fill them.
So the question is this: what new habits, new customs or new traditions do you wish to cultivate and bring forth into your life?