Have you noticed the new rhythms and patterns that have been emerging over the last 5 weeks since lockdown began?

How are you feeling today?

If you have been reading these for a while you'd know that I'm a bit of a Japanophile (did you know that the seamstresses in Japan have a special ceremony every year to honour the blunt needles?).

Tough times reveal character.

I picked up this quote from one of my favourite architects, minimalist Tadao Ando

the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter

This three columned list* has helped me deal with fear and anxiety,

Now is the time to communicate value. 

The question is then, when is something valuable?

It's ok to be scared.

It's also ok to be excited.

Humans are sign readers.*

We read signs to find our way, whether in traffic or in life.

Liminal spaces build community, they force people together in order to survive.

What are you feeling right now as you read this?

Fear?

To write or not to write about Corona, that is the question....

Two things are necessary, a realisation of the severity of the situation and hope that we will survive it.

A simple practice, that deserves repeating, which a child psychologist friend of ours teaches the kids that come to see her (It's helpful for adults too, maybe even more so).