Wow, we have another week under our belt and we’re surviving!

Like all of you, I am working from home and am navigating new ways of connecting that have never played a big part of my teaching practice. I’ve recognised that for me, learning and teaching has always relied on having the opportunity to come together face to face with my students. We would normally be face to face at Monash having clarifying conversations each time we meet. No COVID-19, no social distancing and no technical difficulties! And yet here we ALL are, trying to make sense of new ways of understanding the world from a physical distance. It’s all very disorienting and sometimes anxiety inducing as we find our way through the uncharted waters we are all travelling.

Isn’t it amazing to consider that ALL of us – all 7 billion+ – are navigating these waters together? What an extraordinary connection we have, even while physically distanced.

My hope is that when the mists lift we will continue to hold these connections. In the meantime, consider Kitty O’Meara’s words…

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

Kitty O’Meara 🌻

My thoughts go out to all those impacted by the current times – I hold you in my heart