Plain Life

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(236 234 232 1); color: rgba(34 30 32 1)>These days it's easy to get the impression that people are really very anxious. Who? you ask. Well people you hear about. People who tell you they are. Friends. Lovers. Acquaintances. Colleagues. The Youth. The term is around and people are applying it to themselves or having it applied to them willy-nilly.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(236 234 232 1); color: rgba(34 30 32 1)>What would it mean to be able to live a plain life? Would a plain life just be an unambitious one - a drab or routine life without colour variation unknowing or luck? Or would a plain life be one in which we'd fret slightly less suspect ourselves less and thus listen to ourselves and others in new ways? We may not need to do more and be more - in the quiet spaces already within us lurking in the interstices of our days and conversations there are ways and choreographies to nurture a plainer saner odder less reactive and therefore less terrifying life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(236 234 232 1); color: rgba(34 30 32 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(236 234 232 1); color: rgba(34 30 32 1)>Plain Life</em><span style=background-color: rgba(236 234 232 1); color: rgba(34 30 32 1)> Antonia Pont questions our thinking about capacities virtue envy wanting love and kindness - suggesting that it might be fine more than enough indeed so much to live a plain life.</span></p><p></p><p></p>