A Small Cairn….. Where Are We going?.... Fraiku….
by Bernie Bell - 10:16 on 05 February 2023
A Small Cairn…..
With a lot to it…. undisturbed since it was sealed….human remains….stone ball….geometric wall carving….light box???!!!.....possible transition from Neolithic chambered cairns to the cist burials of the Bronze Age….
Over to Sigurd…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/crantit-chambered-cairn/
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Where Are We going?....
I was thinking about Bartholomew Barker’s poem ’90 Seconds to Midnight’….. https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2023/01/27/fraiku-90-seconds-to-midnight/
and thought - there’s another aspect to this. Covid, as a plague, would have taken out even more people that it did – bringing down human population numbers significantly. But, due to modern medical advancements and some governments being able to quickly bring in controls, though bad – overall Covid wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
People then got fed up with behaving themselves and started to behave as though Covid isn’t there - even in China where, uncharacteristically, the population rebelled against authority - and so Covid cases went up again.
And – being a virus - it constantly mutates, and re-surges world-wide.
Same pattern – we dodge nuclear war - embark on wrecking the climate – make some attempts to rectify that - lose interest – head for nuclear war again. Admittedly, because a nut-case is in charge in Russia.
We are hit by a plague. We behave for a bit – we lose interest in behaving and…..where do we go from here, as a species?
As individuals, all we can do is take individual responsibility for doing what we can. Keep contact to a minimum – wear a mask. Avoid indoor gatherings with unknown people and un-necessary travel – we know what to do - but a vast majority of us aren’t doing it.
Where do we go from here, as humanity ignores the continued presence of the constantly mutating Covid virus.
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Fraiku….
Thoughts of you—
like a prickle of porcupines
occupying my mind
My response being….
“Yikes! That prickles!
The antidote could be a charm of Goldfinches.”
https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2020/10/goldfinch-lost-spells-extract/
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/04/13/the-roses-of-eyam-a-parable-for-our-time/
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