2 May

I'm still bemused at the number of people who find sheltering in their homes a type of torture. All the stuff about 'mental health', from the simple act of staying at home a while? This is where I think we need to have a hard look at our cultures, whether they've lost a sense of a grounded 'home'. Healthy cultures have always had a sense of home, of connection to place. It seems pathological that many are experiencing it as restriction, rather than as that connection. Maybe being alone is forcing us to see ourselves more closely, and we don't like what we're seeing. We can't distract ourselves from our selves any more.