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How Then Shall We Build? — Willow Liana

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The chaos and uncertainty of the global pandemic in which we awoke nearly 8 months ago now has quietly been replaced by a sense of mundane unreality. It is as if we awake each day into the still frame of an action scene. We cannot place quite how we got there, and we are unsure if those bullets flying our way are real or just imaginary, nor do we know when they will cease. Yet the enormity of the movement all around us is felt, as we sit unable to perceive it frame by frame, unable to do anything about it if we could. We are daunted - not only by the new powers we didn’t know could be harnessed over us - but also by the rootlessness of it all. Each decision to lock down or remain open feels to be a bitter fight between danger and safety - “it is between life and death!” we are told daily. And of course it feels cold to choose continued economic prosperity over the life that might be lost at the hands of this virus. Yet it now seems increasingly obvious that it is just as cold to treat

Dec 14 Dec 14 How Then Shall We Build? Willow Liana The chaos and uncertainty of the global pandemic in which we awoke nearly 8 months ago now has quietly been replaced by a sense of mundane unreality. It is as if we awake each day into the still frame of an action scene. We cannot place quite how we got there, and we are unsure if those bullets flying our way are real or just imaginary, nor do we know when they will cease. Yet the enormity of the movement all around us is felt, as we sit unable to perceive it frame by frame, unable to do anything about it if we could. We are daunted - not onl

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