I think it's good to share when we're down. Also, sometimes you just need to vent. We're going through an extremely difficult, heartbreaking, and challenging time. It's important that we be there for one another if we can, and we don't feel so alone.
I get down, too. This is just such a difficult, dark time. We've written about feeling a shift to the darkness, a shift that began with his election and we knew there were bad times ahead. Now we are in the midst of it and innocent men, women and children are suffering. On my down days, I feel I'm watching the end of our democracy, the end of our way of life and I despair. However, those are just feelings and my deepest self tells me that this time is what we all foresaw and that we have to endure it. Even if we are not the children sleeping on concrete without necessary hygiene and basic health care, we feel it. We feel the pain of parents separated from their children. We see all these terrible things happening nearly every day and it's just overwhelming. Yet, this despair is not the truth that I know in my spirit. The tide is turning with every disgusting revelation, every exposure of massive corruption and every death of every child in inhumane custody. There will be a breaking point when the propagandists and deniers can no longer turn a blind eye to this man. I wish I knew the date. How I wish that. However, I do take a great deal of comfort in seeing predictions coming true again and again on this website, predictions about matters great and small. So remember, we do see better days ahead and we will get through this. Breathe deeply. Love one another. Send your positive energy into the universe and claim the energies of the higher powers to protect our country and the earth. A priest told me a long time ago to remember that storms don't last forever. There are beginnings, middles and endings. This storm we are enduring most certainly will come to an end. Amen.
Bluebelle, your words bring me tears and comfort. Bless you, dear friend.
I think we all have our dark days. Reading about the camps and the children just makes me boil. I had to stop reading the comments because of the people who say it's their parents fault for bringing the children here. There is also the "fact" that some of these children may have been paid to come here and the people they were with were not their parents! This just reaks of Faux News! This is beginning to get a load of play on social media despite Faux News talking heads trying to distract by calling people names and deverting the discussion. Some one even suggested trying to get the Princess Trump to help, appeal to her as a mother. Seriously when was the last time you saw her children? She has a nanny for god's sake. She is too busy trying to make as much illegal money as she can before she gets caught and hopefully put in jail.
One comment I did like was the one that said this is what happens when you give the Evangelical Christians the keys to the car! It should be EVILgelical. I have strongly felt since day one that this is going to be a big part of the morons downfall. His friends are making money off the private prisons they run which house some of these poor kids. Like I said before I have tried to stay away from the news but I will be interested in hearng the Dem debates to see where they stand and how much attention they bring to these kids. Until then I will deal with the plumbers and clean the basement for my new tenet. I hate cleaning the basement talk about depressing!
I wasn't sure where to post this, but since many of us have been addressing what's happening on the border, I thought I should share the attached I received from United we Dream. I hope the links work here:
We are some of the fiercest advocates for our community, and right now people of color across the country are counting on us to step up. Here are four ways to immediately make an impact by activating your personal network:
- Head to unitedwedream.org/KnowYourPower to download the Know Your Power infographics in English and Spanish. Share them far and wide on social media, email, and via text messages.
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- Download Notfica on your cell phone - Notifica the app gives immigrants a help button that alerts key contacts if an encounter with law enforcement is about to take place.
These are critical sources of information that can help protect our friends and family and potentially deescalate threats from ICE and CBP.
Nestor and the team at United We Dream
PS -- It’s important to remember these are stressful times, and we need everyone strong and healthy for the fight ahead. That includes your brain! Don’t forget to check out our Undocuhealth resources for tips on how to deal with the pressures of the work we do.
After reading the news this morning, I asked the question, What will it take for the evangelicals to turn their backs on T? The card that I drew was Death reversed. I was surprised by that and am still trying to digest what that could mean. I thought that it might indicate their resistance to change, lack of awareness of what is really happening and just slowness and delay generally. However, I still don’t understand what it will take to change how they feel about the current leader. ?
I know how we want Trump to go down. But what I want to see and I think it would be a harder blow to him is if the Senate turns Blue and then he would def know he is completely and utterly screwed and all his cheating would be for nothing. If the Democrats take over and Pelosi is part of it. He knows all his scheming and stealing would be known. There would be know one to stop it from happening. Just imagine his face and his heart pounding knowing that the sh.. it’s about to hit the fan and there would be know one to protect him. I know I have read that they see Trump going quiet or down in or after December. Maybe this scenario is what has Trump going quiet. Why would he want to run for President again? The Senate would not have another re-election for another 6 years around 2021. No point for him to “rule” no more babysitting for him. No one to hold his hands.
Occasionally, during the hypnagogic state, I receive messages and visions. When it happens, I pay close attention, committing it to memory. Without fail, it’s a message of comfort and reassurance and exactly what I cling to going forward. So, it’s happened again. During the hypnagogic stage of sleep and awakening this morning, I saw a vision of waves crashing on the shore. The water swirled and flowed back and forth in a nearly hypnotic rhythm. Looking down on the ocean waves, I saw the flotsam, jetsam and debris rising to the surface. Then I thought about the movement of tides and turning tides. While you are on the beach and in the surf, you seldom know the exact moment the tide starts to turn. It’s only after a period of time has passed that you recognize that the flow pattern has changed, that more and more sand is exposed and the water is slowly pulling out again. This is a metaphor for where we are right now in our country. The debris swirling in the water is the ugliness of our country’s xenophobia, racism, misogyny, white supremacy, political corruption, financial corruption and the indifference to the suffering of the less fortunate. It’s all exposed now. The tide is slowly turning against this President, but we are in the midst of the swirling water and can’t measure the shore being slowly revealed. The tide is turning and we need to be strong and hold fast.
Upside down death card as an answer to the question. What would it take for the Evangelicals to turn their backs on T?
First consider what the Death card means right side up: The Death Card means among other things, that they signed up for T because he's the guy who gets rid of things. The death card is a letting go, keeping out, pushing away, rolling back, and saying NO to things.
Now I'm not well versed in Evangelicals, and I imagine there are many different and conflicting sentiments among this very large group. But perhaps there's an old deep base that fits what I am seeing here.
T has been the president who more than any other in my lifetime has represented an expunging of progressive anti discrimination policies , the Make America White Again president, the man who said he wanted to return to the New York City of the 1950's -- when the upper middle-class white man was king.
He's also been the president who has promised, in so many of his actions and rhetoric, to roll back progressive policies that have sought to combat racism, misogyny, ageism, gender preference, and discrimination in all of its forms including anti-abortion which is on the one hand, a moral issue with this group and on the other hand there's an anti-women and poor people aspect to the policy.
He's promised to keep the poor and non white immigrants out of here and get rid of those who are here.
He's said “No!” to the rise of all groups of people from all walks of life, No to all ethnic groups, beliefs, gender preferences.
So now if the card is upside down it might mean that if Trump doesn't fulfill that promise to cleanse America then the Evangelicals will dump him.
That is a better outcome than I had hoped for. I just kept thinking that they are very slow to change, very set in their ways and have been very eager to support him no matter what he has done in order to try to roll back progress, but didn’t make the leap to concluding that they actually would dump him - as they have been strangely tolerant (for people who claim to live by a strict code of conduct) of very bad behavior on his part. Thanks for your interpretation. It gives me some hope that things can change for the better.