You know, when that person who is not drinking on a night out, the one who is going to make sure everyone gets home safely disappears or is caught sneaking shots and playing pool with their cronies.
I needed this today - it’s horrendous. I feel that to look away & be ambivalent is a sign of my privilege but how to stay informed without feeling hopeless. I think you are right, finding out own true north & being in that, it helps.
I’m reminded that when a river breaks its banks or its flood defences are breached, we do best by looking after those immediately affected and by preparing for the clean up and rebuild operations that follow. Survival and recovery always seem to work best when a community helps each other in lots of small ways - I think that’s what we have to do, otherwise we can become paralysed at the enormity of things and end up being of no use at all. Maybe what we can do is each figure out what we have capacity for and skills to do, find others, and then do something together. 🙏❤️💪
well put, yes there is so much power in community, knowing that we are not expected to do it all, alone, that is reassuring. The more we work together, the less helpless we can feel. And I think hope is very important in this current society, the young need to feel that there is hope for the world.
Thank you, Beverly. It is what we once thought unthinkable and now happening every day right before our eyes here in the U.S.
It used to be I would say we need to pay attention to the world news all the time...and yes, as you know so well we do "need to pay attention".
And. that does not mean to spiral down into horrible despair. Yes!! thank you for the reminders to also pay attention to the joy - always there - and sometimes so hidden we need to look very closely to see.
It takes my breath away, Patti. Everywhere I look, old and not so old (mostly) white men creating merry hell with other peoples lives. Their cruelty and vanity is horrific.
I needed this today - it’s horrendous. I feel that to look away & be ambivalent is a sign of my privilege but how to stay informed without feeling hopeless. I think you are right, finding out own true north & being in that, it helps.
I’m reminded that when a river breaks its banks or its flood defences are breached, we do best by looking after those immediately affected and by preparing for the clean up and rebuild operations that follow. Survival and recovery always seem to work best when a community helps each other in lots of small ways - I think that’s what we have to do, otherwise we can become paralysed at the enormity of things and end up being of no use at all. Maybe what we can do is each figure out what we have capacity for and skills to do, find others, and then do something together. 🙏❤️💪
well put, yes there is so much power in community, knowing that we are not expected to do it all, alone, that is reassuring. The more we work together, the less helpless we can feel. And I think hope is very important in this current society, the young need to feel that there is hope for the world.
Thank you, Beverly. It is what we once thought unthinkable and now happening every day right before our eyes here in the U.S.
It used to be I would say we need to pay attention to the world news all the time...and yes, as you know so well we do "need to pay attention".
And. that does not mean to spiral down into horrible despair. Yes!! thank you for the reminders to also pay attention to the joy - always there - and sometimes so hidden we need to look very closely to see.
It takes my breath away, Patti. Everywhere I look, old and not so old (mostly) white men creating merry hell with other peoples lives. Their cruelty and vanity is horrific.