In the two years since the pandemic brought “lockdown” into our everyday language, I’ve thought a lot about confinement.
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This unconscious “no” may seem negative, but it's a double-negative, a space of potential, the source of learning and creativity that comes to life at our limits, within our boundaries, and beyond our habits.
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My forthcoming fatherhood is not public office, but it is political. Many women have known that the personal is political, even before that slogan was born in the 1960s, but white guys like me have been slow to learn. I hope we are waking up. The paternal is political because responses to our climate crisis that focus on self-reliance, technical fixes, and competitive strategies are completely inadequate to the job of keeping you safe.
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The question is: will low-tech, communal resources like parks, community gardens and other nature spaces be given a neuroscience nod of legitimacy that helps protect and prioritize them as mental health resources, or will high-tech, private solutions for mental health continue to be seen as the leading edge of psychiatry?
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Sure, grieving hearts mend, towns rebuild and forests regenerate, but the secret ingredient in all these is time, a certain kind of slow, winding time that seems to be at the brink of extinction in our society and news cycle.
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