interesting article in the Guardian, Margaret Atwood answers questions on the state of the world. The headline mentions Ai Weiwei and Rebecca Solnit but there are plenty of other people who pose questions. The book she is promoting is called 'Book of Lives'. Hopefully it will come out in audio, though of course one misses the written word and the solidarity of a physical book.
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist who produces assemblages of one type of thing, rather boring in fact. I remember years ago he produced in an exhibition smashed up valuable antiques. Paul was furious with this seemingly vandalising act.
I as usual saw the other side of the question. Which was? you have to make room in the world for new things to take their place. The world seems so full at the moment of things that might happen, people talk of war, and a climate crash, in which we as a country will be importing a 100% of our food......
"On nature, Nathalie Seddon, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: “We are facing a national emergency not only because the climate is changing, but because the living systems that protect the climate are breaking down.”
She added: “This isn’t about choosing between the economy and the environment. It’s about recognising that the economy is embedded within the environment, and that the health of the nation depends on the living systems that sustain us.”
But hey-ho lets go on pretending that it isn't happening, much easier that way!
Having delivered the bad news, the good news is the video of the wedding, a month ago between Ellie and Tom finally surfaced. It showed the pair of them totally in love as they went around that busy day. There were a photographer and I suppose a video expert that day and it was such a happy occasion as they vowed their love for life. Love is not always talked about in blog land, we talk of grief when we have lost a loved one but the happiness of belonging to one person is very rarely expressed.
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