Making Connections

There seems to be a lot of energy in the news at the moment. Items that don't just pass through but instead have a form of "stickiness", which means they accumulate and connect to leave us with a sense of unease, something I have described in other posts as a 'quickening." 

Energy prices, inflation, winter flu, product shortages - the sort of low-level threat that it is easy to conflate and amplify out of proportion. When that happens, we need to be grounded and connected to something that puts them back into proportion so we can see them for what they are.

It's an old but powerful adage that we don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. As a result, how we feel, our sense of self-worth, the people we surround ourselves with, and what we pay attention to determines our world and what we do.

What drew me to this thought was a series of conversations organised by Sightlines Initiative, a small, passionate group of early years educators. Speakers included Iain McGilchrist and Sati…