What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.
Interesting observation but so far from the reality of humans as a social creature. Maybe we don't stop to think about it often enough, how linked, how dependent we are on others (even people we don't know and will never meet) for our very existences; how the water gets to the taps in our kitchens, food to supermarkets, roads maintained so we can get that food, medical care, shoes made, cloth woven, heating duel piped.....and that's just the basic needs. As social creatures we are not islands but co-dependents for every part of what makes us human. Have a great long weekend. Xxx F
Hari OM All these things of which you speak - the wash and tide of society if you will - are 'the common sea'. Each of us in it IS an island, for every one of us, in the end, must deal with life in our own way, however connected we may be. Islands, of course, are merely emergences above the waterline of the totally connected 'earth' of this planet and all belong to each other in an extended fashion - which, of course, was the message of John Donne's - No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions) A poem as much suited these times of COVID as any written today! This observation in today's 'menorise' points again to the fact that each of us is tied by that very wash and tide... YAM xx
There is an island in Scotland with a castle...
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ReplyDeleteInteresting observation but so far from the reality of humans as a social creature. Maybe we don't stop to think about it often enough, how linked, how dependent we are on others (even people we don't know and will never meet) for our very existences; how the water gets to the taps in our kitchens, food to supermarkets, roads maintained so we can get that food, medical care, shoes made, cloth woven, heating duel piped.....and that's just the basic needs. As social creatures we are not islands but co-dependents for every part of what makes us human. Have a great long weekend. Xxx F
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DeleteAll these things of which you speak - the wash and tide of society if you will - are 'the common sea'. Each of us in it IS an island, for every one of us, in the end, must deal with life in our own way, however connected we may be. Islands, of course, are merely emergences above the waterline of the totally connected 'earth' of this planet and all belong to each other in an extended fashion - which, of course, was the message of John Donne's -
No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
(From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions)
A poem as much suited these times of COVID as any written today!
This observation in today's 'menorise' points again to the fact that each of us is tied by that very wash and tide...
YAM xx
ditto wht Tigger said.. I agree with Tigger and with the quote... all over our world we are all the same but different
ReplyDeleteI feel that is the way we should be.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous photo and quote. I can almost feel the refreshing breeze.
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WOnderful image and lovely quote. We are separate yet share a common space!
ReplyDeleteHi Yam - lovely photo and thoughts about us all as islands ... as per Donne - excellent poem ...
ReplyDeleteWe are separate yet together ... thank you - Hilary
Excellent thoughts from all! Thank you! Sometimes though, I feel like an island within an island.
ReplyDeleteOne globe, one people. namaste, janice xx
ReplyDeleteGlorious photo and thoughts.
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