This blog is about silence, solitude and simplicity, and for people who sometimes like to be alone. But then there is the pandemic, and people demonstrating in cities, towns, and on social media because black lives matter? Do I dare keep to the original topic? Do we dare take time for silence and solitude? Can we create a simpler life? Is it selfish to long for time to be alone? The answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes.
These days many feel they have too much silence, solitude, and simplicity; it is pulling them down rather than lifting them up; they long not to be alone but to be with others. The peace they used gain from silence, solitude, and simplicity has been usurped by loneliness.
There are others, however, who are experiencing a deepening peace with the added time of silence, solitude, and simplicity that the pandemic and black lives matter has offered. I am one of them. The best of have to offer is what is so for me, not what I think anyone else ‘should’ do.
I writing this to reset to my original mission for this blog. Maybe it doesn’t need one; maybe the reset is for me. For those on the journey, lets continue of the silence, solitude, and simplicity path.
These days many feel they have too much silence, solitude, and simplicity; it is pulling them down rather than lifting them up; they long not to be alone but to be with others. The peace they used gain from silence, solitude, and simplicity has been usurped by loneliness.
There are others, however, who are experiencing a deepening peace with the added time of silence, solitude, and simplicity that the pandemic and black lives matter has offered. I am one of them. The best of have to offer is what is so for me, not what I think anyone else ‘should’ do.
I writing this to reset to my original mission for this blog. Maybe it doesn’t need one; maybe the reset is for me. For those on the journey, lets continue of the silence, solitude, and simplicity path.