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I read Charles’s commentaries and essays as I travel around Oslo in Norway . I notice here how just outside of the city the space opens up to a dramatic and beautiful landscape . Your question “ who am I “

Travels around my head like a pinball thoughts both quiet and immediate . Occasionally I’m back down the Rabbit hole that houses the “ balls “. I got vaccinated and thus in this metaphor I ask myself do I have any “ balls “ left should I not have given in because my son is disabled and I’m both carer to him and Osteopath to a whole community of sufferers like him . What next did I have the “ balls “ to do what I thought was right for me or did I lose my “ balls “ by conceding . There’s a “pull “ In my mind and I’m back again around the “ track “ of thoughts . However I notice how the space around Oslo opens my thoughts and somehow it absorbs each thought and there is more clarity . For me the open spaces the sea will bring the answers of “ who am I “ as these cradles of Mother Nature can hold more than we “ carry “

. Who am I gets clearer everyday in these vast landscapes and deep oceans . I would say this is where you can go to empty the mind and clearly rejoin humanity a place of difference not necessarily division . A place of uncertainty but still action . No mandates , use the power of the vote do everything through the three filters / gatekeepers -

1 . Is it true

2.is it necessary

3. Is it kind

When I read your work Charles I’m reassured as in the film Spartacus, when asked all the slaves said

“ I am Spartacus “

This is a place where I’m glad to stand with you and say

“ I am Orc “

May we learn in peace x

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