It’s Easy Enough…. The Ness of Brodgar…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:19 on 06 March 2025
It’s Easy Enough….
On Remembrance Sunday, an old friend from Uni. posted something on his FB page which I considered to be tasteless. I told him so, and we had a ‘flare up’ which resulted in my un-friending him on FB – something I’d never done before, as it seems a childish, petulant thing to do – but I was well-riled up and …I un-friended him.
Over the next few months I looked at his FB sometimes – couldn’t interact with it, and was limited in what I could see - but checked it now and then.
I realised that we agree about a lot more things than we disagree about. So, I sent him a Message saying so and adding that I’d send him a FB friend request, then it was his choice. He accepted.
Why I’m writing this…..the point I’m making is…it was easy enough to do – to hold out a hand and say… ‘Why not be OK with each other?’
It wasn’t a big deal - not ‘swallowing my pride’ or stepping down from some illusory high ground. Just saying – let’s leave it and be OK again.
And he, presumably, saw it the same way. Tho’ I imagine with a wry smile!
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The Ness of Brodgar…..
….continues to enthral…amaze….(insert enthusiastic words of your choice)
Here’s a report from Jo Bourne on the Current Archaeology Live! conference in London last weekend, at which site director Nick Card was the keynote speaker….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/ca-live-2025-2/
One word…YAY!!!
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Erica Berry
“Why did I feel I was owed a stable wilderness, a certain snapshot of the earth?”
As humans, we long for stability and continuity, fearing what might be lost amid tides of change. Yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, wildfire, ice melt, compost, the seasons—that nothing lasts, all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction.
Grappling with her fear of change caused by wildfires in Montana and the long-overdue Cascadia earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, Erica Berry confronts how the colonial erasure of Indigenous stories of place and her own limited sense of time have blinded her to the Earth’s dramatic flux. As she learns that impermanence doesn’t always signal loss, but rather the transformation of form, she glimpses the convergence of past, present, and future; and finds a way to hold the fluctuation of the lands she loves.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fault-of-time/
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