Imagine the Invisible

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
– Novalis

Imagine if you could bleach a lie – if truth went viral – and testing and tracing and treatment accompanied it.
Imagine if we could have a leader like Jacinda Ardern.
Imagine if we could convince the overly social to go the distance.
Imagine a fleet of potent anti-bodies.
Imagine if we could crack the code spinning in the wind.
Imagine a vaccine.

What’s invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
– Jeanette Winterson

Imagine if you had no iPhone, no iPad, no iTunes, no iMac – no Wi-Fi?
Imagine (now screen less) no Door Dash, Instacart or UPS?
Imagine the collapse of social media – no Facebook, no Instagram, no Twitter?
Imagine if quarantine, masked & gloved, shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders were medically induced terms in a Netflix sci-fi trailer?

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
– Thomas Merton

Imagine how in pre-pandemic time you imagined all the things you could do – if only you had time.
What if you imagine isolation not as anti-social incarceration but a looking glass for the lost and found? A multi-faceted crystal for time travel – an orb for innovation.

Imagine the invisible. Imagine!

5 thoughts on “Imagine the Invisible”

  1. Nice to have time to think, and do things without the rush to run to some other task or distraction. I like this isolation. My garden is benefiting and I find more soulful time to myself. All good. Thanks for the imagining. And the photos Martha.

  2. Solitude was new once time past
    not a ready friend to another self.
    now warmed to that embrace
    my mind finds peace.

  3. Imagine solitude as a choice
    Imagine finding your voice
    again
    Imagine knowing you
    through your imagination

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