Reflections 13th March

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On my Mind

Reflecting on things this week has been difficult. Finding the quiet time and space has been hard work with so much dissonance finding its way into my thoughts, and triggered by the simplest of things.

I've long had a habit of waking up to "Farming Today" on Radio 4 - I find it a remarkable "Island of Sanity" to start the day, listening to how people who grow things talk about their challenges and how they approach them. There is something about farming timescales that makes much more sense than the short term sensationalism that follows on the seven o'clock news. At the moment, that news is like fingernails down a blackboard, such is the concentrated stream of insanity that pours forth.

As is often the case, this maelstrom of confusion was brought firmly into focus by a passing comment in a group conversation on Friday. Karen Brosnan talked of the "bank of social capital" we are all part of, and with a quiet thud, everything settled for a w…