Monday morning and reflecting over thoughts from the weekend.....I watched Lark Rise to Candleford last night ... lovely 19th century period drama set in the Oxfordshire neighbouring villages of Lark Rise and Candleford. For the characters there, home was very clearly defined by life in the village. In earlier centuries in the UK, you would need a passport to move from one village to another.
Hard to believe in an age of world travel! Today, more and more people identify themselves as citizens of the planet ...
global citizens with a world view of themselves and the people with whom they share their 'home' Yet turning my mind to the stretch of this comparison from village to global, I wondered if my mind needs to stretch further to encompass the planet as part of the universe.
After all, it is simply factual that Larkrise and Candleford are villages in Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire is part of England , England is part of the planet, our planet is part of the universe.....
It just depends how far one's perception and identity travel....and of course whether this has significance and meaning to us personally....more on that later !
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