Autumn flower

Blip is awash with lovely daffodils, bluebells, tulips and the like from the Northern Hemisphere at the moment. So here is a red clover from the Southern one. And some water droplets on the leaves.

Yesterday's beautiful sunshine didn't last. It was raining by bedtime and we have had the delights of mizzle all of today.

Fortunately there is no shortage of produce to process, so I have been dealing with more apples (dehydrating them). I have made a tomato and lentil lasagne, and a big cauldron of minestrone soup (with thanks to Blipper Wildwood for reminding me I'd not made any this year). Most of it will go into the freezer for comfort meals in the depths of winter.

I was sent this link to an article in The Guardian by a friend last night. I'm glad I read it this morning and avoided possible nightmares!

It makes me ponder about trust. Being able to trust each other means that human beings cooperate, which is one of our great strengths. But it can also result in too much trust falling into untrustworthy hands, and to exploitation / manipulation. And it can be too late to pull back when it comes to light, leaving us exposed and vulnerable. 

Maybe there's an element of dodging the difficult decisions too: a desire to have an easy life and to leave the hard decisions to somebody else, who may not have our best interests at heart.

I have recently been thinking about the wisdom - and personal morality - of sticking one's head in the sand and ignoring what's going on. I know people are suffering mental health repercussions of 'too much bad news' but for those of us who can bear it, I think we have to stand up and shout a bit more about what's going on around us. In a way we might be too nice to each other about our ability to face these demons!

I constantly ask myself if I am doing enough. Is writing about the metacrisis in the Witter and in Blipfoto enough? Is it enough to live the change I want to see? Can I do more? Do I end up boring people and alienating them from my writing if I bang on about the metacrisis more than I do? Can I change the tone of my words to somehow make it more readable, undertsandable and therefore more influential? How can I help people see what's going on and change their lifestyles?

So many questions ricochet around my brain every day. Only occasionally do they make it out into the world...