Is this perhaps our greatest individual work?

And the key to our internal freedom........

I was planning to send you a piece of writing this evening about an aspect of neurodivergence (and shame) and then this poured out of me. It feels particularly pertinent at this point in late stage capitalism when frankly it all feels a bit ‘end of days’. Or is that just me feeling that?

It is hard to know what is really going on in the world. What is actually true? What is fake news? What is some sort of fabricated spin? Are wars started to create business - so that big construction companies can rebuild and make vast amounts of money? Why is there so much war and horror? Are we, as humanity, all really evil?

There is SO much that pulls for our attention and there is only so much we can actually really pay attention to. Our energy flows to where our attention is. How can we be the manager of our SELVES when so much is demanded of us and our time?

In the last five years I have had a near constant sense of unease about the world, a lack of faith in leaders, a loss of belief in many syste…