Thoughts on politics right now...

That which divides us... doesn't always win:

"What's on your mind?" Facebook prompt, prompts. I search mine & find the unbearable...
-Images of starving children/war ravaged places
-Sounds of bombing/shooting/weeping/mourning/raging/begging/pleading to a god or anyone, to end man's inhumanity
-Feelings of helplessness/hopelessness/impotence

For me, the right to protest... is the right to fulfil my obligations. I saw harms, engaged with protest and so became 'Activist' ...because trusting governments/industries/regulatory bodies etc. with the future, is clearly not an effective solution.

[Political borders dissolve; what remains is a reminder that ecology laughs at colonial boundaries. Africa/Asia/Europe aren’t separate continents here, they’re collaborators in a hydrological dance.. water erases the fiction of separation] www.grasshoppergeography.com/products/cus...

Honouring mum, June Irene Rothery 10/12/1942-05/05/2011. At 23 with 2 children, she ventured us to Australia as '£10 Poms' for a better life. 8 yrs on this pic of her as a leading exec in Hong Kong, reveals her success against so many odds. She's the energy that powers & inspires my life #MothersDay

Was researching info for an author who's writing about Vivienne Westwood & encountered this (as it included her) that I'd written at end of 2017. At the time, the anti-fracking focus was on Preston New Road #PNR #Lancashire; I was recalling the years/places/events that had happened to bring us there

Still finding my way in the @bsky.app place & not yet connected to those I stood with to stop #fracking since 2011 but will seek'n'find & put together a list (unless one already exists of amazing anti-frackers?).

#FrackFreeLancashire
#NanasUK

#BlueSky is a bit like that fresh, new notebook you get at the beginning of a school term - a clean slate where all previous mistakes are left behind in the 'old book'. I'm still at the drawing my columns & filling in my name stage... the fun bit before any mess 😊