We Contain Multitudes
As I write this ash is falling over a Perth in lockdown. The fires in the hills, with several homes lost and families evacuated, combined with the immediate lockdown on Sunday 31 January has taken 80% of the state from a peaceful 10-month period without local transmission to an intense halt.
Once again, with the whole family at home we’re trying to balance the needs of work and family, fully knowing that many other places in the world surely has come to their wits’ end managing heads and hearts. It’s an endless contradiction trying to achieve the impossible of two jobs, and many will fall under the pressures this is causing. Be aware of your staff and your colleagues, and the layers of lives they are living and have been thrown back into.
The lockdown is also a reminder that families, friends and colleagues all over the world are experiencing personal losses, varying levels of lockdowns or transmission, civil unrests, threats and natural disasters. We may all be displaced and apart but on the other hand have the world previously been so close in experience and understanding each others lives. All life is affected by the way we live today, maybe in that there is unity.
As always, don’t forget yourself.
If you can, take several breaks.
And remember, everything doesn’t need to happen at the same time.
Helpful tools in lockdown
Weekly Mindfulness with Integral - join us and other clients for 15 minutes of peace
We Contain Multitudes by Olafur Arnalds
