“On the shore, I watched the sails unfurl, flap then billow, & felt my heart billow too. ‘May the wind always be at your back’ I said, & my soft words were carried away on the salty, sea breeze.” (Emerson Warner).
2/. “When day comes we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
3/. “The loss we carry a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace. In the norms and notions of what just is isn’t always justice. And yet, the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it.”
4/. “We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation. Our blunders become their burdens.” @TheAmandaGorman#Inauguration2021#Biden#InaugurationDay
5/. What a difference day makes!
“The kid from the Kayton Homes housing projects”, goes to get sworn into the United States Senate.
“One doesn’t recover from grief. If you're lucky, you heal from grief. But never completely. Unless we process our grief it can turn into anger or depression. We've seen a lot of that in America over the last year.”
“For millennia the pods floated in space like spores, propelled by solar winds, occasionally landing on inhabited planets where they would replace the dominant species by spawning emotionless, stony-eyed replicas...” (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Questioned about his govt’s repeated inexplicable failures to try & control #COVID19 at airports & lack of action to protect the UK from a new Brazilian variant of #coronavirus@BorisJohnson appeared to mutter “oh god” under his breath.
2/. Whilst adherence & enforcement of lockdown rules is vital, the rules need to be clear & adequate support is essential.
I’m not against fining Covidiots who knowingly breach #COVID19 guidance but can we ALSO punish govt ministers who knowingly & repeatedly ignore the science?
3/. On positive note, Prof Reicher says “collective resilience is supplanting a psychology of individual frailty”
As we expand our capacity for cooperation the role of the state becomes “more to do with scaffolding & supporting communal self-organisation” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…