Monday, April 20, 2020

Core Strength


Stay home doesn’t have a universal meaning. The self-evident truth of the current Global Crisis is that while we are all in the same storm, we don’t have the same life-boats. An excessive focus on the conspicuous, means our foundations and buffers have been found wanting. Our lives revolve around income. Income defines our local. Who we spend our time with. How we spend our time. Who can afford to spend time with us. So that in an emergency, when we retreat to our safe spaces, we aren’t connected to those who don’t have matching core security. We don’t have names, faces and trust to do something as simple as a Cash Transfer to those who don’t have the privilege of a world that continues when the work stops. Most of us don’t even have trusted individuals who have done the work to understand the parallel realities we are separated from in Global Apartheid. There is some existing trust. There are existing relationships.  We need to lean in, imperfectly. Then tear down walls and build bridges when we start again.



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