Wisdom of the Elders ...

Time to engage more closely with the community.
The Wisdom of the Elders was an occasional article offered to another Community Newspaper, and enthusiastically accepted by the editor. A follow up email  questioning the ethics of publishing paid for content masquerading as honest news and views from the Community, met with silence.

The rival Weardale News set up with a more ethical stance, and far more contemporary form, moving away from print to virtual, clearly the future, with regular edited pdf versions available for readers happy to print them off for tech refuseniks ... cost effective and sustainable, though still depending on honest, ethical volunteers or paid staff to ensure freedom of the press ... a principle sacrificed currently, along with community gatherings in pubs, libraries for information, human contact in general. .. newspapers and television are still allowed however ... whether to inform us of the truth or to convince us of government lies, who knows?  Government guidance is so confusing, the current regime so deceitful, the coming coalition mostly unknown, that turning off the telly and avoiding your favoured paper seems the wisest course ... alternative sources of news are available once we dig a little, if only to broaden our perspective ...

All this political stuff concerns some friends, questioning why your contented old blogger, comfortably confined in a Retreat Centre complete with Library, free to wander the fells for exercise and occasional meditation, chooses to engage at all ... surely everything is working out perfectly as is taught they say ... which is true at one level, but somehow it seems to play the games of humans in this critical time is vital ... though, rest assured dear reader(s), equanimity is never far away and playing the game artfully, compassionately, avoiding all the divide and rule, gives purpose somehow ...

Whether employing previous journalistic skills turns out well or not, who knows? In the world of humans, past is known as history, present is happening now, and future is contingent ... unknown until Consciouness adds its choice of which probability emerges ... quantum mechanics still an interest, though lack of scientific acumen meaning properly trained scientists are required ... though even they don't agree on what's going on in the weird and wonderful world of sub-atomic particles, or is that waves?

Meanwhile Dawn arrives earlier and this morning is forecast clear after yesterday's cloud and warmth ... mmm Sun and colder again, but dry ... weather another topic for newspapers to lie about!