Posted 3 May 2020
Yesterday evening I took a step back and looked at the ever-accumulating list of my COVID posts over that last few weeks. It is quite a body of thinking and something I will keep and cherish for a long time. I liken it to an intellectual diary into my life in lockdown.
I have learned a lot about myself in the last six weeks and much of that is (implicitly) documented in these pieces. Whatever the ‘world after COVID’ looks like, I must find ways of keeping my writing and my statistics going. The author within me has been suppressed for too long!!
The posts on this site were all originally posted on my Facebook feed; I created the copies here as many of my friends do not use Social Media. Thus far I have only posted to this website my most analytical pieces and have avoided copying posts of the typical Facebook kind (pets, plates of food, platitudes etc). Today I break that rule.
I have just posted to Facebook a photograph of my cooked breakfast but then I realised that actually placing that post (and these introductory words) in this timeline of pieces will add a record of my mood and feelings as of 3 May 2020. An oasis of sentiment amongst a ream of analysis.
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In many ways I will be quite sad to leave lockdown (though I am also chomping at the bit too as more and more scholarly papers point to how little benefit it has had and how much long term suffering it will create). It is a cosseted existence. And I love the irony: Never before has my life been so ruled by external elements (“stay home” etc) and yet my most immediate daily experience is the least governed by others it has ever been.
We choose how we react.
A big part of my genetics determine me to be a loner and what could be better: full English, a mug of hot fresh coffee, Loreena McKennit on the hifi and a morning ahead playing with numbers and spreadsheets.
Simple, but at all levels nourishing.
Some graphs to follow shortly.
Enjoy your Sunday x
