Coronoa Dispatches 2| Winds of Change

Coronoa Dispatches 2| Winds of Change



Collectively, we are caught up in a great wind of change 
which has unexpectedly come blowing through our lives. 


But thank Cod for the physical wind.


In times of normal, there was something about wind, as a walker, that was most aggravating.   The wicket North Atlantic winds which blows through these parts didn’t deter an outdoor venture, but it certainly dampened the spirit.


Listening to it howling against the eves outside, no issue -  
but out on the walk  path, it distracts from the calm, the purpose, the chia.
Truly, a grate on the soul. 


But the world has changed, recently – and so rapidly.


Now, the wind feels different … like a comforting friend, really. 


When my body allows, I go outside each day to greet it with exuberance. I seek its tonic -  breathing it in,  like I am sucking life and the ol’ ways itself back into the depths of my being.


This new wind friend awakes my senses, which has been dulled by droplets of anxiousness, dread, grief, change and uncertainty. It helps still the mind and
reassures that, soon, this too shall pass.


Many of us are already craving normal - and it’s only soon into this collective global rearrangement. 


Work, socials, food habits, shopping, gathering of friends and fam have all been laid aside so we do not invite the dreaded one into our lives and our lungs.  


And, we have been warned, it’s not ‘bout to come back to right-side up, very soon. These winds of change which have swept most powerfully through all our lives as human will blow for many more months to come. 


In the meantime, we all have to come into the centre of the circle 
and get real about our predicament. 
We watch with despair as the infections and the death rate continue to climb around the world. We pray for and worry about our frontline workers as we go deeper into this crisis. We do our best to preserve ourselves and one another.


In the end, we truly are all into our individual lonely hours, whether by ourselves or with family members. 


Isolated and in our heads or in our own worlds, we carry on in the best way we can.

We watch the news. Get stressed. Turn it off to pretend that all is back to the old ways. 

Some of us have become productive in new ways, 
others are lost in a whirl of nothingness.  
The days are passing as we move through this mass upheaval and health crisis.


What do I do for pandemic pleasure?


Go to the ocean

Snap, snap, snap (Best therapy )

Cut my own hair,

Snip, snip, snip (Failed experiment)

Indulge in the wine

Sip, sip, sip. (Less is better)

Wash dishes

Dip, Dip, dip.  (Infrequently as possible)



More imprtntly, each day,

I try and go back to the wind

Into the wind.

To be “With the wind”

To befriend it and ask for forgiveness for my judgement against it all these years. 


One thing is for certain, little things will help us overcome our fears and other challenges during this mass experience; and propel us forward.  
Simply things like gratitude, empathy and forgiveness will help us emerge 
to the other side in stronger shape physically, psychologically and emotionally.


I, for one, will never again throw any grief against the wind.


Proving that what you once shun, 
you may joyfully embrace 
when the wind  changes direction in your world
and upends your comfort zone.


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