Apparently, Celine Dion’s Titanic song was playing in the restaurant when the Costa Concordia hit the rocks off Giglio Island in 2012. The cruise ship had moved off course, and ran out of water above the rocks. The captain is serving 16 years in prison, the company paid $2bill in compensation to victims, and costs of refloating, towing and scrapping.

The anxiety of the pandemic was fertile ground for spreading the infection of worry. Things beyond our control possibly shortening our lives, and a sudden lengthening of time to give us space to worry about it. Are there some steps we could take to feel more in control, and to use our precious time more fruitfully? And once Covid is just another virus and not a crisis, are there changes to our lives that can sustain positive change?

The pandemic may be off the headlines…until the next one! Do we remember how alien it felt and all the things we were going to learn from it…or are we just slipping back into old patterns?

How echoes from a far-sighted guru resounded to help 35 years later