Stop and Look

We’re at the start of a week long heatwave - when the days go on forever and the nights don’t really let up. Times like this feel like a chance to pause (it’s too hot to do anything quickly!) and to contemplate, in a half-haze of promise and stillness, what really matters. We’re living through domestic political turmoil, war in Europe, financial anxiety and threats to fundamental freedoms we have previously enjoyed. So, what can we do? How can we feel positive about a world we can’t control?

We can celebrate our resilience for a start. We can be proud of our ability to get up every morning with a plan for the day - a plan designed to keep us going as we try to make sense of things, to maintain our relationships and carry on moving forwards. Just as the cold makes us turn inwards in winter, let this heatwave make us look up, outwards and beyond for a while - if only so we can keep looking for chances to make things better.