It's probably simplistic for me to blame people's denial and lack of social distancing on the President -- but I am blaming this, in HUGE part, on the President. The tone is set at the top. I don't need to rehash the Mad King's behavior this past 4 years, and in particular, how he's handled this pandemic. Whatever life is lost is in his hands, as well as those who enabled him.
Love you and this sharing so so so much. I helped a dear friend get out of a bad situation and into a arduous therapy/ healing energy and somatic work for years and years and tears and tears of stories and agony of sharing lifetime of unbearable secrets.
Because of her, children, her sister, her aging aunts and cousins.i learned so vety much about this level of pain and trauma among dozens of women in one family. It was indeed exhausting and broke us both open in the process as it did many of her and their relationships.
Eventually she found her courage to do as you have done and continue to be doing now. Oh how you have connected to your own trauma and began the healing. I haven't seen my friend in decades but we keep in touch and she is happy, healthy, and balanced in one place loving life with her loving partner with shared children and grandchildren and no loner carrying the massive burden of trauma without the enormous fear and lack of self worth or the splintering into fragments anymore.
Each person and each situation or life path and learning through releasing is different. But your releasing now is huge!!! Huge! Oh what a treasure and a gift you are to everyone here now!
I can only imagine all you have endured and been through to move through so many layers and levels of this your own particular journey and healing but my gosh i do know how incredibly incredibly challenging this work truly is.
You my dear spirt-sister-friend are so well on your way now. You are a marvel, a miracle, a blessing and a delight in my life and those of us here in this forum.
You all came to the right place at the right time for a reason, a very long season and to be forever friends even if we never meet in person.
We all meet you in heart and spirit and our hearts and spirits are radiant with this beautiful connection here we are all so blessed to share.
?Love love love for who you are?
Something happened yesterday. My youngest child, special needs, came inside just frantic for me to stop what I was doing and come outside. When I went out, sitting right there a few feet in front of our gate, was a bunny. Brown, medium-sized, cute, eating some kind of leafy weed. It looked at me, not afraid, and kept eating.
I felt like crying for a moment. It was just so weirdly normal. This rabbit had no idea of the world's chaos, and its calmness, coupled with my child's excitement, was just what I needed to remind me, once again of the necessary appreciation for simple things.
Ha! We can learn a lot from a bunny. The bunny has no care for the chaos because for the bunny there is no chaos, only the Here and the Now, sitting in the sun, eating a snack. The past is done, the future unset and elsewhere is not Here. The only thing real is this Now Moment, which is calm and peaceful. Practice Being the bunny, if only for a few moments a day, and you too will soon find that peace.
May the lessons NY learns from handling the virus benefit the whole country, the entire world, just as they have already learned from S. Korea, Italy China and others. May the experimental treatments they are now testing be enlightening and helpful. May other states also battling a surge in cases find solutions and insight which will help the whole world.
May scientists and doctors around the globe think, study, create, improvise and inspire solutions, cures, help, ideas, hope and collaborations internationally. May the solutions and resolutions be because of work done across boarders and by joining forces worldwide. May it be for the greatest good of the world, not a company, individual country or government.
We are all connected. A global full court press for the good of all humanity.
For the highest and greatest good.
(Apparently, I think this virus is supposed to be a catalyst for the world to work together as one to solve this crisis jointly, showing we are stronger together and well, you get the idea.)
Amen sister! Indeed it is. Its not what many expected exactly but it is a plague of immense proportions and as it hideous and life changing as it will be for those of us who survive it we must never ever forget the truth of it and the transformation it created
It has only just begun (? ) but we will get through it. We will learn to focus on the transformation that is needed within each of us and within our nation and the world.
And we do it or we lose it all. But with love and hope and faith and all the other good things within each and every one of us love and light will prevail ?
I don't understand some people. Ridiculous. SO selfish. I am curious, what state do you live in? Do you have many known cases?
We live in deep red flyover country- Nebraska. There have been 35 confirmed cases,most of them here in Omaha. We cannot keep a sign in our yard for any Democrat running for office. They all vanish. I was on the local 'Next Door' site and had to get off, I was being threatened for not being 'patriotic'. Gives you a flavor.
If this continues, many of these folks will lose someone in their families, sadly it will take that before it hits home.
Survival ethos marks New Orleans, now an epicenter of COVID-19 | National Catholic Reporter
On March 10, Louisiana had its first reported coronavirus case. Eight days later, 240 people have tested positive, out of 575 tested in less than a third of the civil parishes, or counties, with six deaths attributed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to state officials.
The deaths and 176 cases have been reported in New Orleans, the epicenter of a state that "now has the third-highest rate per capita in the country," reports the Times-Picayune/Advocate.
The three-week Carnival season of crowds at parades, dancing at balls and packed music clubs seems now a perfect storm for "community spread."
https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/survival-ethos-marks-new-orleans-now-epicenter-covid-19
STILL waiting to hear if Jazz Fest will give us refunds - only email I got so far is that they're trying to reschedule. Very frustrating. I'm not going to go this year no matter what, I need that money back. I'm talking thousands of dollars just for those tickets (air and hotel were not a problem to cancel).