Reflections 28th April

The Nature of Storms, and Setting Conversations Free.

The notion of shelter has stayed with me all week, sitting in the background, providing a context for what I notice. It has led me to think about what we take shelter from and the nature of storms.

Thunderstorms develop when the atmosphere is unstable. This is when warm air exists underneath much colder air.

The Met. Office

The atmosphere feels pretty unstable right now. Almost anywhere we look, we find examples of behaviours that seem to make no sense, quietly undermining our confidence in each other and those who purport to lead us. It is as though we have a top layer of those living in a cooler, detached layer of existence, unaware of the increasing emotional temperature of those in the layers below them. There is a sense of that “heavy air” that precedes the storm in the language of those insisting that the weather is fine, with just a few isolated showers. We know that they don’t believe that any more than we do.

We can hear the distant thunder—the pervading sense of putrefaction in …