Freedom Phase 0

She jiggled her hips as she chose her fruit. The music quietly hummed through the supermarket to soothe us as we shopped, people were masked and alone - avoiding each other as we had been told to, but now it felt right not to be near strangers. She grooved her way down the potato aisle, towards the fish counter, still subtly swinging her tooshie from side to side.

"All we have to do now is take these lies
 And make them true somehow
 All we have to see is that I don't belong to you
 And you don't belong to me yeah yeah
 Freedom
 Freedom
 Freeeeeeedom..."

Her excitement was infectious and brought tears to my eyes, not for the first time this week. I joined in and sang out loud to the lyrics as I shopped for the family's food. Freedom has started. First the children were allowed out for an hour a day - and today the adults could exercise. The rules are complicated as to when we can leave the house, and who with, depending on where we live and how old we are. But freedom has definitely started.

The sun has begun to crank up it's heat, the wild flowers bob their delicate heads in the soft breeze, we notice the skin of a snake and a shouty partridge on our hours walk. We smell the clean pure air, watch our seedlings grow by the day and stumble across tortoises minding their own business.

And as freedom is so very close, I hope we can take forward the slowness and the mindfulness into our new normal.