@lovendures We live in an Apartment Complex so we try to enjoy the nature when we can while still keeping our distance from others. I'm hoping once we move into a house it'll be easier. I have been fighting myself telling myself we are going to be ok and getting this house isn't a mistake. Sometimes the war in your lives in the one within.?
Been trying to get back into making art. It's difficult, but I've picked up the brush and did something with it, which I guess it's an improvement all things considered. Since the emergence of the virus and my first encounter with racism over it, my creativity is been on a decline, where I've hit rock bottom last week and march itself.
I've been thinking of writing my first draft of my comic's script, which is the first story of an anthology I'm hoping to work on for quite a while just to keep me busy. It's about a werewolf barrister with a chip on her shoulder with the rest of humanity, both magical and mundane, but loves her family and devoted to the ideals of justice. The last part she's not willing to admit because she's a tad cynical.
I hope my creativity energy would recover a bit better rather than going bad again like last time.
Good afternoon everyone, I have been working on myself and reading all the support and thinks people have told me not to worry just to have optimism. A few things Jeanne has said to me over the last few years to help me escape my mind have helped allot. I want to thank you for reassuring me I will get to see my son grow up and that I won't die from climate change where I live. I don't understand but it boosts something inside me deep down telling me its true and to not let go of my dreams for the future and try to let go of the negativity cause we will face what seems to be thrown at us. I need to stay out of my mind and not take predictions to heart has hard as I was. For example, population declining in the next 50 years can be from many different things including birth rates dropping and interplanetary settlements.
I love being part of this community and love every single one of you. Thank you for the support and reassurance you all have given me ? I may not respond as much anymore but I will be hanging around.
@Laynara, we love you. We all want to wrap our love and protection around you and your family. I don't see anything that would keep you and your family and your little boy from living long and happy lives. I have not seen nor has anyone here a big population decline in the US in the future like you said you have read about.
Nor has anyone here who has participated in Read the Future night. It's also not in the science. Climate change will cause huge loss of life down the road, but not likely in this century in this country. Yes we will see food prices go up but we will still eat.
Sadly and unfairly, the greatest loss of life in the next fifty years will be in countries with exploding populations to feed, countries that are already stretched at the margins of subsistence. In those places, even without climate change, food production will not be keeping pace with population growth after 2050. That is science, and even then, smart people are actively working on advances that will help them.
As for the doomsday prophets who have creatively come up with every possible horror for the future, I do not listen to them and I wish you wouldn't either. We don't post that stuff here. It is simply a prescription for instant anxiety and for no reason.
@jeanne-mayeIl Thank you so much Jeanne, your words were so touching they managed to put a smile on my face which I needed tonight. I appreciate you taking the time to respond with such wonderful reassurance and love. I'm trying to avoid the news the best I can because in my grandmothers words "It rots the brain when they speak evil nonsense".
I hope everyone has a good, blessed night/day ?
@jeanne-mayell I had my first good nights sleep in a while since my fears have been cut down quite allot. And the prediction I was referring to was from 2075 about the earth having 75% less population, but that could be a number of things scientifically.
My heart feels allot lighter today from all the love and light everyone here has surrounded us in. Thank you all for the love you have surrounded us in ?
@laynara. Oh, Laynara, that is such good news.
I noticed a shift in my own visions for 2020 election after spending a good part of the day writing postcards to help people in Georgia get back onto the voter registration rolls. The mere act of helping boosted my optimism. The healing meditation we do on Wednesday nights also makes us all feel stronger and healthier.
I'm posting this here, because it's not really a vision, not transpersonal, etc., but I woke up laughing today. I had a pandemic-related dream last night.
Background: I don't usually dream anymore, I suspect due to my low thyroid function, but when I do, they are usually hilarious, apparently even my sub-conscious is a clown. It's long, but what else do you have to do today? Here we go:
It's a few months in the future. I had to do weekly shopping at Costco (which, btw, I don't shop there anymore). People are not wearing gloves and masks, but many of the safety measures are still in place, including social distancing. I have my shopping list with me, and I'm finding everything I need from my list. I even find some reasonably priced hand sanitizer and throw one in my cart. As I come around one aisle, I see a display of imported German chocolates in yummy flavors. There's even an employee handing out samples. I say to her, "Really? Samples? Aren't we not supposed to be doing that?" and she replies "No, it's ok, I'll only hand you one piece with tongs, please don't touch anything." She gives me a piece and it's delicious, so I select one box to put in my cart. I realize I left my cart at the other end of the aisle, with my shopping list in it. I go to put the box of chocolate in my cart, but there is a dude next to it and another dude with a forklift. They are taking my cart away! I say to the first dude "Hey - what the hell? That's my cart!", and he says "Sorry ma'am, you can't leave carts unattended, we just had to move it out of the way, no worries, we'll put it in a special area by the cashiers for you, you can retrieve it there when you go to pay. My name is Dave, and if you need anything else let me know." I say, "But I have to get more stuff, and my list is IN the cart!" Dave replies "Well, just start over I guess." I tell him this makes no sense to me, how am I supposed to redo the whole cart without my list (I'm very list-centric IRL, if you hadn't already guessed that by now). I decide to just head to the cashier area to try to find my cart. When I get there, it's set up almost like a TSA checkpoint, except there's a little old lady "greeter" wearing a uniform that looks like a cross between Costco and TSA. I ask her where my cart might be. She says there's an area "over there" and vaguely points. She wishes me a nice day. I roll my eyes. I go look but can't find the cart. I find a security guard (and my brain cast Steve DiSchiavi from The Dead Files in this role, which I so appreciate). He helps me look, even outside in the parking lot. He suggests I start from scratch and I point out -again- that my list is in the cart, this is an insurmountable task. I thank him, and decide to pay for my box of chocolates and leave. As I pay I spy Dave at a distance, and holding my chocolate up high I yell, "FUCK YOU DAVE, FUCK YOU!!!"
The End.
@Bluebelle - hope this makes you laugh
Editor's note: I told this dream to my hubby when I woke up. As soon as I got to the part where "Dave" is removing my cart, my husband said "Fuck you Dave!" We laughed our asses off. He knows me so well.
I hope everyone is doing wonderful tonight, I have had a pretty good day. I got to spend time with my little family, watch one of our favorite tv shows, do some cleaning, and video chat with my parents and siblings that live in Ohio and New York. I miss them all greatly. I believe today has been one of my better days, trying my hardest not to some myself out ? thank you all for letting me be part of this amazing community ?