It’s been a long gap away from commenting on 360 deg observations. Not necessarily of somnolence or disinterest, while amidst billowing ‘Ocean(s) Currents International’ of events not restricted to the ‘Isles – much is left to be seen, much remains left to be said….to say the least?! A good ‘would be reformed’ friend & helping hand, had perhaps turned dark & ‘Laker badgered off’ north too – sadly to see? ….Am a bit disabled, sadly disappointed. But with all goodwill, and yet strong in hope & faith….all will be well.
Amongst the Research Studies streaming in on Blogs, are the those interesting suggestions that: (1) Salivary cortisol levels as screening indicators may mean more than one thing, not the direct correlation of ‘desired’ causality effects that we would ‘like’ to choose to report and promote …amidst myriad ‘foeto-placental unit communes’ in stresses. Not just stressed mothers, but intensive (care) environmental ‘tripwires & toe stubs’ too. (2) NAVA needs more dwelling upon, and fine tuning, but kudos to the deeply involved researchers, ‘able & willing’ funders and original conceptualisers. It all starts in the mind…intentions, you see, matter. (3) A study suggests more careful a look at any shallow prevalent attitudes to better introspective Parental Training too – to better address ASD-related ‘non-compliance, melt downs and shutdowns’ in CYPs? (4) How committed positive imagery may help influence to get ‘up out of’ increasing ‘down in the dumps’ anhedonia – in a hedonistic world, and an over-Medication-obsessed academia, industry and ‘clientele’.
Are we helping or hindering, by our perceptions of, and reaction to, myriad communal events around us? Two things came up foremost.
One: A ?BBCR4 program overheard partly in passing yesterday. It seemed to me, and perhaps you audience too, that responsible Commentators could be perhaps less shallow and more humane by not smirking ( from safe, comfy havens) at a cauldron of appalling human suffering, opportune ‘?commissioning’ & cyclical tumult – internally as well farther East ( northward as well as southward), and even mocking/musing over ’21day prophecies’ (and like misunderstood Paternity in graceful, helpless, restrained mournings unseen by majority, till Grand Slam Day?) muses…over evolving geopolitical situations that cry out for maturity, empathy & reverence instead. Apologies, if wrong hearing from my side. Perhaps it is a world of an ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ ambiences? Astute aloof silences. Really short 20-30 sec attention spans ‘or else or block and ban’; ‘just get rich, shop at Waitrose, Harrods & Body Shop to pretend neat eliteness while the going is good’ abiding opportunism and nuances? Worth deeply mourning and exhorting away from consorting with? One raises eyes heavenward for more of the worried, sombre voices such as those on the maybe stoic faces as Jeffrey Archer, Dominic Waghorne & Grace Malie, or of the frail, weary worn-looking dear old Maggie Smith ( ‘Jean brodie’, RIP as of yesterday; “Its so noisy, I can’t even hear myself die well?”) ) and Gillian Anderson (in War Child appeal – I mean the situational exhortation, not the funding appeal).
Two: A world of increasingly younger & vicious young and older ‘Zombies’, grandiose artifice, unsafe browsing & theft; and ‘homebase’ sheltered triggers & retaliations …where families should be reclining safely together in goodwill sharing under tall Cedars of mutual unselfish safety, in better and in worse, in poverty and in riches? Perhaps the best, like Jeffrey Archer, would wince in painstaking detailed deep & wide insight, and answer just “Ow”, and be wary of comedians gleefully enjoying Canons encouraging Hyenas tickling younger kindred to teach them how to Grow and laugh like real mature hyenas too? How right Tolstoy was: “It is amazing how complete the delusion that beauty means goodness?” Does Suffering, when one learns from it with age & graciously, grow & refine some away from early immaturity or opportunism to kind resilience & humanity…if that is the only good that might come from it, even amidst evil entrapments? What else to say but – “Let those who have an ear, listen to what …”(quote, unquote)?!
32 million school days ‘lost’; Horses to Courses. Most everyone running for cover & coverups, former decrees & imperious deadlines shamefacedly acknowledged and yet carefully shielded behind (even ‘gifted’!? ) fig leafs … Great Pretence current major export commodity? Around every ocean current for ‘more currency’; and both the high and the low, young and the old, the male and the female, the boss and the employee…. equally corrupt, opportunist and shoving for primacy. Shall we take a moment, learn what we perhaps most need to learn – for real education to kind wisdom, to navigate the times? Why not listen to a couple of those favourite old songs – Buddy Greene’s ‘Vagabonds‘, and Cody Johnson’s ‘Dirt Cheap‘? Should make us think…if one can ponder deeply, ‘get’ it – the Geometry of it all. ‘Fast Carr’s to Research, and Reprobates, Regulation, Rambo and ideally – genuine Repentance and Restoration. Go figure !
Apologies to the few readers…for a long gap in my Blogs while on the Bridge of Sighs seeing Amazing Grace too!
Key Words: Insight. Bridge of Sighs. Suffering. Gap. CYP.
