I made a left turn and at every turn was blocked from doing what I thought I needed to do. I'm taking "me" back., I have skills, I don't have to be a pawn on the GOP's chess board. They don't get to decide how my life will end
Like others have stated, thank you for another superb essay. Choice. That is a word that resonates so deeply with us all. Yet while claiming to want choices of individual freedoms, the GOP is working fervently to take choices away from everyone else. It is the paradox of our time. We must continue to fight for our choices too, before even the choice to fight is taken away. Thank you ECM.
I agree. I've always been an optimist, silver lining type of person. And hope. We have to hang on to hope. It will conquer all. Making a decision to carry on & fight requires strength of character & a backbone. I'm not giving in to anyone & choose to keep my power. I will help my fellow travelers fight for theirs.
“choosing love and joy is not weakness– it’s actually the only way out.”
I used to have a poster that read “Nothing so strong as gentleness;
Nothing so gentle as real strength.”
So much of what we see all around us in the violence and “projection of strength” is fear masquerading as power.
The changes we seek will come when enough of us learn to speak up from the unshakable authority of motherheart energy to the frightened little boys that are making the world a scary and dangerous recreation of their nightmares. We need to speak up, generous in our compassion for all suffering everywhere and our love---for one another, for all people everywhere, for all of Life, for Beauty, for Joy, for Service, for Kindness.
Love you and the way you always give such nourishing good for thought.
And the need for public acknowledgment of our collective losses. I had high hopes for Biden to provide this- he would be so good at it.
There are some local efforts. A group here in Providence always has one or two singers each week on the steps of the church where each Wednesday they toll the bell for the lives lost to COVID in the past week in RI.
But collective expressions of our grief and loss are NECESSARY.
Thank you for this - so right- so human. We must fight for that which keeps us our best selves. (No one left behind).
I made a left turn and at every turn was blocked from doing what I thought I needed to do. I'm taking "me" back., I have skills, I don't have to be a pawn on the GOP's chess board. They don't get to decide how my life will end
Like others have stated, thank you for another superb essay. Choice. That is a word that resonates so deeply with us all. Yet while claiming to want choices of individual freedoms, the GOP is working fervently to take choices away from everyone else. It is the paradox of our time. We must continue to fight for our choices too, before even the choice to fight is taken away. Thank you ECM.
I agree. I've always been an optimist, silver lining type of person. And hope. We have to hang on to hope. It will conquer all. Making a decision to carry on & fight requires strength of character & a backbone. I'm not giving in to anyone & choose to keep my power. I will help my fellow travelers fight for theirs.
“choosing love and joy is not weakness– it’s actually the only way out.”
I used to have a poster that read “Nothing so strong as gentleness;
Nothing so gentle as real strength.”
So much of what we see all around us in the violence and “projection of strength” is fear masquerading as power.
The changes we seek will come when enough of us learn to speak up from the unshakable authority of motherheart energy to the frightened little boys that are making the world a scary and dangerous recreation of their nightmares. We need to speak up, generous in our compassion for all suffering everywhere and our love---for one another, for all people everywhere, for all of Life, for Beauty, for Joy, for Service, for Kindness.
Love you and the way you always give such nourishing good for thought.
And the need for public acknowledgment of our collective losses. I had high hopes for Biden to provide this- he would be so good at it.
There are some local efforts. A group here in Providence always has one or two singers each week on the steps of the church where each Wednesday they toll the bell for the lives lost to COVID in the past week in RI.
But collective expressions of our grief and loss are NECESSARY.