STOP, LISTEN, WATCH...
I wish I could have described the point we're at as eloquently as this short and poignant video!
I wish I could have described the point we're at as eloquently as this short and poignant video!
Waiting is not something many of us are good at, and we don’t like uncertainty. Yet this is where we are, and it’s uncomfortable and monotonous. We can do little but wait - for lockdown to end, for testing for all, for a vaccine to be discovered and universally made available, and for the economy to get back on its feet. None of us knows how the chaos we find ourselves in will turn out, whether life will ever return to so-called ‘normal’, and what the long-term implications of a world turned upside down may be.
This is such a brilliant and thought-provoking article by Charles Eisenstein on the current pandemic that I have to share it! It is long, but so well worth reading and re-reading.
‘When you are strong and healthy,
You never think of sickness coming,
But it descends with sudden force
Like a stroke of lightning.
When involved in worldly things,
You never think of death’s approach;
Quick it comes like thunder
Crashing around your head.’
Milarepa
The world is in shock, much of it in lockdown and curfew. After devastating fires in Australia, floods in many parts of the world, and a massive infestation of locusts in East Africa, we now have a global epidemic of coronavirus spreading exponentially. Much we’ve taken for granted is disintegrating and our way of life can no longer be as it was before.
As the global emergency that is corona virus/COVID-19 turns lives upside down and we learn to behave differently, waiting to see how everything unfolds, we need to nourish ourselves. Christa Tippet's On Being Project team have put together a series of podcasts, which includes "Poetry for Tumultuous Times" - such a great idea! Thank you, and for allowing me to share this.
https://onbeing.org/starting-points/poetry-for-tumultuous-times/
Had to share this beautiful video poem with it's simple message of hope.
Delighted to share this podcast interview with Emma Mills about my life and work.
https://www.emmamillslondon.com/eileen-campbell-interview-for-wellspring/
I felt I had to share during these very challenging times we're living through this wonderfully inspiring article by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I have quoted from her before in my Book of Hope (The Woman's Book of Hope in the USA), but I gratefully share in full here:
This brilliantly sums up the revolution in consciousness that is taking place right now against a backdrop of a chaotic and anxiety-inducing world. Posted by a friend, I thought it so worth sharing: