Jane McCarthy
What do I like most about CV?
I believe CV focuses on a crucial issue – the gap between how people experience and live their everyday lives in their families and communities, and how powerful organisations and systems work in such different ways of thinking and organising (and generally don’t really notice they’re doing so!). I’ve found CV really open and friendly, I have felt welcomed, including the particular focus that concerns me– on death and its continuing aftermath in the lives of the living [refer here to the place where I say more about this?]. I regard CV as a really important and exciting space for open conversations.
How do I destress?
I’ve been a meditator (TM) for decades and my (grown up) children get tired of me saying, “I don’t know how I’d survive without meditation”! I’m immunocompromised so I still lead an odd life, trying to keep myself away from COVID risks. But I love country walks with friends.
Hobbies?
Don’t really feel I have any hobbies as such though music is very important for me. I always thought when I ‘retired’ I’d travel to places in the UK associated with my family’s history – which is very English, and rural, and pretty tough until they benefited from the broader prosperity that came from the exploitation of the British Empire. I’ve done a fair bit of exploring online about my family history, and it really brings home to me what patterns there seem to be that get passed down across the generations. Powerful food for thought.
There’s more about my work to be found here https://www.open.ac.uk/people/jcrm2and I’m on X (still) as @JaneMcC149 and Mastadon (occasionally) as
@[email protected]. I’m nominally on LinkedIn though I rarely post
there.