Isolation - Good or BAD ?

There are several types of isolation and it occurs in a number of fields.To generalise there are areas where isolation is good and others where it is BAD and some where it is both good and BAD.

It is fair to say we don't need to look at the areas where isolation is good - areas like engineering both electrical and mechanical ( wont be explaining why).

In medicine patients can be isolated because they have a contagious disease - this would be understood to be good.

Other ways to isolate
a)  Groups,organisations or countries
b)  Something - ideas or problems
c)  Oneself
d)  A person or groups of people

Governments are currently telling people to isolate.Cut off from family,friends and society.
The good in this action can be argued about but the BAD can not - isolation has been proven to raise stress levels which can lower immunity thereby making people more likely to be attacked by the current virus. What are we not being told!

The song says something about loneliness but you don't have to be old to be lonely do you?

Journey to the unknown

All journeys have to start somewhere but in most it would be almost impossible to predict where they finish except in the very shortest.
They are mainly measured in distance travelled but even more importantly in time passed.
Distance travelled allows for a return journey whereas time passed is one way.

This is one such journey.

My wife Noreen & I with Pauline in 1966.

Other important events happened in this year - England won it's one and only World Cup and are now on mission impossible?
Colour Tv first shown on BBC.
On a more serious note a bishop in Ireland protested when a woman on the Late Late Show admitted that she did not wear a nightie on her wedding night - parishioners showing too much free will ?

As you would expect in a period of 54 years a lot of things happened both good and not so.

All of Noreen's siblings and her father died and in my family 2 brothers and a sister died in tragic circumstances.

However the good things are somewhat personal and numerous so there will be no itemizing for these.

 Last year my wife of 55 years Noreen died on 4th July - this has put everything else to the background for the present

This is where we were before our journey was seriously interrupted last year.