Reflections 11th April

It's been an eventful week full of conversation around what I referred to last week as a sense of "quickening" - that as yet not well defined but quite tangible sense of things moving. Maybe Spring, maybe the anticipation of greater degrees of freedom and all added to by the death of a remarakable man who displayed such a remarkable and quiet sense of quiet duty. The end of an era?

Whatever it is, it has had a presence in the conversations, and a notion of "radical simplicity". As things "quicken", just what are we going to pay attention to?

We've discovered much of what we can really do without in the last year, as well as much of what we can't and it seems the the things we can't all have a thread of simplicity running through them. Relationships, animated conversation, laughter, a notion of what really matters. Despite that, the shallower things we haven't been able to have that are beginning to jostle for attention, ably supported by lobbying and advertising by those whose narrower …