My Health Is Not My Own
The Submergency of the Pandemic
Nora Bateson
The pandemic has stopped the traffic. But it has not stopped the noise. Like an ant hill that has been kicked there has been a wild scurrying, and reorganizing, a constant chatter, and an every-which-way attempt to figure out how to go on. This is punctuation, marking in the in-between. Life before the dramatic arrival of this virus is no more, and what happens after it is an unfolding path. There have been some reveals.
The meta message:
Vitality or life, is created through relationships that build relationships that build relationships and so on. Think of soil, and how soil becomes a forest or meadow where birds and insects find their homes, and where lovers walk hand in hand. The most important aspect of a healthy body, or healthy family or a healthy community is not the health of the individuals, but the the relationships between them. A family is several generations of relationships in multiple directions, within a culture, within history. The relationships matter and each communication within them also matter, this relational process is what life is made of.
Beyond the din of people arguing about the binaries of incomplete research around masks, transmission, lockdowns and going back to how things were- beyond all of that mess… there is a meta message…