From the Epicenter of the Pandemic
On being surrounded by death
'... it's tough. It's confusing. Being surrounded by death is challenging. I feel something is changing deep inside. From receiving to giving.'
Luca. Northern Italy. Covid Lockdown
During the pandemic many of us used to gather. Around the Inner View camera. During one such gathering Luca Salvini, calling in from the then epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in Northern Italy, made a haunting comment concerning sitting surrounded in tragedy; 'that he was now certain that the one thing that he'd miss above all, if he were to die, was the opportunity to bring his true self to the world'.
A few weeks later, we re-gathered as Luca sat in front of the camera.
This is what came.
30 Minutes on the 17 July
Last week we had an extraordinary 30 minutes of/from No-thing. Something was very much alive. If you were there, you know. I’ve scheduled another 30 minutes on Thursday 17th July at 1pm US Eastern/6pm UK. You are most welcome to join us.
Come for nothing - I know, who ever does such a thing? - and in doing so, experience an entirely antithetical way. As was noticed last week by many.
It just happens - to you.
In This Time of Chaos
In this time of visceral chaos
what if this were the
last time I were to see you.
Might the possibility of
words left unsaid
haunt the rest of my days.
To live a life beyond surviving, removing the knowns from a habitual life and making space for the true self and its wonderous beauty to come through, in awe.
I'm struck by so many things. His comment about 'giving' and how that's ego - like others are poor and you're rich.
Reading his words; I read them to myself silently and then to my wife out loud. And then the very different power of hearing him speak them, with all of the emotions and the timing. Lastly, always in the background, that overwhelming sense of death that permeated our lives 5 years ago.