Preflections 10 January
When I said last week that I would spend January "Preflecting" on what might be emerging, I clearly had no idea.
Here we are, 10 days into the New Year with an assault on the Capitol in Washington, Donald Trump banned from his main sources of communication and under real threat of being either impeached or ejected by the 25th amendment, the emergence of the real challenges of Brexit as we actually start to do stuff, and the Mother of all lockdowns just as we had been trumpeting the vaccine program. That 's some going for ten days. Let's see what the next 21 days does to 2021.
It is very hard to understand a story when we're in the story. We're so busy doing that we cannot see the narrative arc of where it started, and where it's headed. What are we to do when the platforms we are standing one feel like they are on fire? It makes it difficult to just "be" for a while, yet it's that which we need right now.
Take a deep breath, look around at what's really happening and summon up our resolv…
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