Family Kinship Space and Time!

BRIGHTEVERYDAY Family Kinship Space and Time!

Like the vertical cities of the 50’s people have found sustained identity and associations in diverse habitats and locations. The intrinsic value of such comforts and sustenance is an important part of the living matrix of community, identity, and place. What shapes it and weaves its symbiotic blanket of comfort, bestows refuge, and solace; it nurtures us and prepares us for our journey, and those adventures yet unfulfilled. It provides a blanket of kindness and hope for perennial goodness, an elixir of radiance and generosity, filling, all the time, the beating hearts and aspirations, of a sometime searching, often lost, generation. We would do well to dwell on the past histories of kinship, detachment, dislocation and the esoteric rhetoric of flawed policymakers and planners. Perhaps the tapestry has faded in time, but the story is as relevant, and vibrant, as ever.

The recent abandonment and deregulation of Planning in England is an unsurprising act of ignorance, neglect, and vandalism. It sits like a badly fitting suit and exposes the squirrelling hollow impotence of high office, and incumbents, in the vacuous drive to fill the coffers of the party, all the time undermining the much vaunted “One Nation.” The Tories may have friends in high places and most certainly they need them to support the mantra and oil the already greasy pole. Who needs such an anachronism, but, if only it was just that! Their shame and impropriety excel, and casts a long shadow, indeed a deep furrow, awaiting the fall and entropic, amorphous, decomposition. The rusty old till, still ringing, it paints a sad but misguided picture of the sated, euphoric, buffoon, no longer even an accessory, in a new world order. A lesson in place, space, belonging, and human interaction please!

We learn much from ourselves and involvement in human interaction. Resilience and inspired thought, an esoteric refinement of our held beliefs and aspirations, guides us with rarefied purpose towards new landscapes and explosive possibilities. Where we once lacked self-belief, we find courage and innate energy, allowing us to self-propel to an exciting new arcane and elevated existence. When we get to know ourselves, it gives us confidence and assuredness, it moves us from the sedentary, to the oscillating wing, the outer place of profound and rewarding opportunities. It outlaws the mundane and vacuous and sweeps us into a vortex, an aurora with no malevolence, rather a welcoming knowing, a smile from within, as though we always knew, perhaps hoped, there was a meaningful life just there!

Look out there, see the signs everywhere, ancient as they are, though often obscured by time and our pedantic way and dulled vision. There is a whole world, one of order and beauty, of majestic generosity and primeval resonance; it shifts and shapes our perceptions and draws us in, inviting us to learn the balance and centripetal force of the natural world, the cycle of life, giving meaning and sustenance to all creatures, To learn this intimacy is the reward in health, in body and mind, understanding the symbiotic relationship reinforced at every part of the prism, of all of nature and humankind. We are a whole, just as depicted in Vitruvian Man, beautifully drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, as in the circle of life. The knowledge gained by our forebearers is often lost in a sometimes senseless, hedonistic world, but as recent events have so firmly reinforced, there are many avenues and challenges yet to be explored, ones which readily cast aside the secular and nebulous trivia, so inordinately heaped upon us by a scheming, merciless few. Their valedictory death roll is nigh and will allow us once again, to appreciate humanity and our natural world, in all its glory.