2021 Dreams of a Hospitable Society

A benefit of the pandemic has been a pause in ‘normality’ allowing one to reflect: noticeable effects such as roads with near absence of cars, filled with pedestrians and cyclists who greet one another, a virtual absence of planes in the sky, a greater engagement of people with nature, with simple pleasures, a re-valuing of roles that have been deemed and rewarded commensurately as less valuable such as cleaners, refuse collectors, so called front line workers etc. A return to the idea that ‘we are all in it together’, the idea that a society might be said to exist once more.