A Stand in the Park

After various traditional demonstrations in different places, mostly cities apparently ... though information is unreliable unless you were actually there to witness what happened; mainstream media either ignores peaceful protests or downplays the numbers, or in cases where violence ensues, by protesters or agents provocateur the case is made against the protestors ... A Stand in the Park spreads, with folks visiting their local park at 10 am and wilfully standing there until 11 ... yellow jackets are advised by some, though that may merely enable the forces of Law and Order to pick out their targets ... as the weather gets warmer, let's see how it goes!

The undemo tactics practised here and surely elsewhere simply entail wandering about for exercise and stopping to talk to friends and strangers ... often questions about the martial law in place for a year are raised and discussed openly and calmly, maybe agreeing to disagree maybe not ...

Of course simple radical acts, like declining to wear masks, take jabs and shaking hands or hugging begin to lift the fear instilled cynically by rogue governments.

Some say social media is censored and indeed it is in many ways, but something strange is observed here: The content suits my needs, whether FB or YouTube, including the Davos and WEF information, but mainly items exposing the truth as I see it, like UK Column News, Unherd and others ... then there's philosophy from Dao, Zen and Wu Wei plus physics and cosmology ...

Yesterday saw a decent walk updale, stretching the legs ... meeting random strangers for discourse, including some profound encounters, one of which looks likely to lead to circle sitting with local Quakers and maybe circle sitting at A Place to Be.

Easter approaches, clocks go backwards, daylight lengthens, awareness grows as the year of repression runs out of steam, ludicrous orders from imbeciles posing as politicians and honest scientific advisers are skirted round or ignored ... and the next phase of The Great Reset emerges, with a New Normal and fewer orders, though the progress of bio-engineered drugs needs serious attention.

An old and well remembered book by Laurie Lee "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" offers inspiration and nostalgia for wandering in Spain. Still plenty of books to read in the Library and others to add ... as for wandering, that goes on here in Weardale, Hadrian's Wall maybe and plenty more ... Spain and Portugal? Who knows ...