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There is a certain amount of asceticism that comes from being on one’s own day after day. So, although aloneness comes with its trials, the ensuing detachment from worldly concerns brings its own perspective on things.
I’m a full-time carer for a loved one (my wife) who has early-onset Alzheimer’s Dementia. In our case the disease has resulted in us being largely confined to home for reasons to do with how the disease manifests.
In these pages I track the many enthusiasms developed over a lifetime, but in a particular way. When we happen upon things with a form of attentiveness best characterised by Simone Weil’s phrase ‘without force or haste’, we start to appreciate how open-ended and interconnected everything seems to be, but also how detached one has to be to think this.
Such thoughts have a long history.
Tony Cearns
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