Starting a new chapter of the Great Unraveling/Great Turning Thread. Chapter 5.
The last chapter started with the beginning of the Biden Administration in the heart of the pandemic.
The pandemic is now wrapping up. We've watched the Biden Administration work to reverse the worst rules and policies of the Trump Administration, and so much good is unfolding as the Republicans continue to grasp and recoup what they've lost by trying to stop people from voting.
Yesterday we learned that former Attorney General Barr is now in the news in not a good way.
So let the Great Turning continue!
For continuity, I have moved the last page from the Great Turning Chapter 4 to this thread.
Listening to the news this am... Joe is backing down off of big businesses raising taxes back to 28% lowering it to 15% and dropping down the costs of the proposed infrastructure rebuilding of America.. down to 1 trillion. GQP refuses and only approves of 256 million. Joe still wants bipartisan agreements. Meanwhile ?? still believes he will be reinstated in office in August. SMH Our window of opportunity is closing *sigh*
@journeywithme2 ....Maybe. I totally understand your worry. Its the old story and we're still trying to write the new one. What Im hearing is "This is not a linear process, its a dance. Some are busy, noisily playing checkers, watch for the ones quietly playing poker." Right now, good ol' Sleepy Joe isn't showing his hand. It feels like he is coming from a place of great strength, light, and purpose. I don't sense any weakness in him, it still feels very much like he was made for this moment. I think the dance is for future allies who are presently in liminal space. Events will transpire soon enough that will illuminate the way for them, so they can choose with a clear heart. I also hear - "Don't look for him to be the hero in a glorious victory parade; look for him to be a humble servant who tends the seeds of great change." Thats where we need to keep focusing our energy - on the seeds.
@barry. I guess where I have an issue is not with Joe and Kamala - they are quietly, steadily,persistently dealing with many crises and issues and much is going on "behind the scenes".
I will freely admit that what bothers and concerns me is: "there is no healing without accountability" and it sticks in my craw how many are seemingly getting away with screwing the American people over and causing what feels like irreparable harm, indeed participated in the very treason that manifested in an insurrection at our Capitol and to this day are still in office BLOCKING as much of those investigations as possible. I fear they are going to get away with it!!!! That probably comes more from my life experiences with domestic violence and the skewed court systems. I have experienced too many times perpetrators not being held accountable for the harm they caused and how it emboldens them to do even more atrocities.
It irks me even more because I reside in area where we are still having people come down with covid, we are only 26% of population fully vaccinated! I still hear the Kool-Aid drinkers touting hydroxychloroquine and other quackery...but then again...I am in Marjorie Taylor Greene "country" so delusional thinking is rampant here. Stores and restaurants are opening back up without mask restrictions... you'll see some with them on...most..not wearing them.
Some days it is very very hard and a struggle to believe my intuitions and not allow the movie I see playing out in front of me overwhelm my spirit with despair and loss of hope.
@journeywithme2, I am so sorry for your experiences with domestic violence and the skewed court systems. (skewed is so very generous). I want you to know that your experiences and post do resonate deeply with me. I've lived in different places and walked in different circles that very much weren't mine . I personally know the people you describe, some family, some in the groups that MTG is allied with. I fear them too. I lived in an area very much like yours, and I endured the soul crushing pain of domestic abuse and the the skewered court system. I cant adequately put that in words because there is no way, except to say that it fills my eyes with tears to know what you experienced and for me to try and write about it. I probably experienced in a different way in that the abuse was of people closest to me. I fought for years, I stood many times in court in front of skewered judges who fully knew the truth, ignored the evidence, and looked away from it. That's the short telling that's not too heavy. There was never justice, I see the damage done every day. It's taken years of counseling to make any small amount of peace that I could live with. It's never far away. I have your same fears. I struggle to accept my previous post too. One of the big difficulties I have found in being intuitive is that I am given knowings, messages, understandings that I struggle with myself. Coming from situations like we are talking about, trust doesn't come freely or easily. I have to give myself over to my higher sense and trust in what is at odds with what I believe that I can see from my limited perspective. I think I could only do that in this case because I trusted you. Courage only comes from people who don't have any hope. Hope is enough and comes easily to people who have never suffered. To have courage is a gift not easily given. It takes courage to believe that we can change things for the better. Or make a change at all, or even just a difference. If we don't summon the courage to do just that, there is no chance anything will ever change. I draw inspiration everyone who has fought for so long and continues to struggle for equality. They have yet to find justice or healing and they continue to strive. Many have lost more and suffered more than I can imagine. They have strength, courage, and grow towards the light. That is true power. I feel very strongly about the part about the planting of seeds. Everyone on all sides has to be healed, the seeds have to be planted to do that. I'm trying not to focus on what justice will look like or how healing will come about (or to limit it only to those I might deem to "deserve" it). Just that it will happen. It most likely wont be pretty or easy, giving birth is painful and messy. I hope you can continue to grow to trust in what your heart tells to be true, uncolored by the stories of our minds. Maybe one day we can tell ourselves better stories.
@barry. Thank you so very much for your words. They resonate with the clarity of the Freedom Bell. I am a survivor. Still battle with the PTSD from it. Had to walk away from family members that were very toxic..in childhood.. and .. in my marriages. I had to struggle to raise my children better and not to be as broken as I was, sometimes? I failed..but.. we all acknowledge that as imperfect as we are we do truly love and care about each other. We all... have our battles. I decided 11 years ago that my family was best loved from a distance and no longer had the right to have front row seat in my life. Walking away was the best thing I ever did. I can not change them.. I can only change me. I get up every day and do my best to live a life that is humble and kind. To be an advocate for those who can not speak for themselves, I have housed them, fed them, clothed them and done whatever I could when I could and will continue to do so... and.. to continue to speak up and speak out. I am not the person who sits quietly by when I see others abusing ...I step up to the plate and do what I can because of all the times I wished someone had stood up for me and didn't. Those memories remain sharp in my being. I do understand the dichotomy of what my Higher Self/ Soul knows.. and... what my monkey mind chatters about in the daily grind of living. One of my touchstones... is the story of the child on the beach tossing the starfish back in to the water....when told by the adult... You can't possibly save them all.. they are going to die.. it doesn't matter.. and the child replied, continuing to pick up and toss them back, it matters to this one. No.. I can not save the whole world.... but... it matters to ones I can help.. and it matters enough to speak up and out.. no matter how my heart pounds when I do. As a younger stronger person it was easier... not being gray-haired and riddled with arthritis..Just the fact that someone hears me.. truly listens...and whether they understand it or not...acknowledges that we have value and our voices DO count... is deeply appreciated. Courage? is the tiny voice in my head as I lay down each night.. "I will try again tomorrow".. because these days? I am so, so , so very tired...but... I hold on for the days I KNOW we will tell better stories. I KNOW that our experiences matter...and serve a purpose. Trust... ahhhh ..to deliberately make oneself vulnerable.... "Trust is a complex neural process that binds diverse representations into a semantic pointer that includes emotions." does not come easy. Courage is choosing to trust despite evidence to the contrary. I DO trust that we are in the final throes of a change for the better... I am just weary beyond belief currently and need to garner strength for the road ahead to the end of the year. Thank you for helping me gather some up. I recently had some devastating news about the death of a younger sibling I thought died over 40 years ago. They actually died about 4 years ago. I know that has a lot of effect on current state of mind as I grapple with that. Justice? I know has not been served in too too many places and times. Thank you again for taking the time to talk , to discuss, to relate. Most of all.. for the Gift of being heard. We will.... prevail... if not here... there.
@journeywithme2 Im sorry for your loss and so many losses. Knowing you cant help loved ones and choosing to walk away to protect yourself is hard. So many regrets and hurts on so many levels on top of the pain of the loss and separation. I can feel your pain and I understand how hard it is to keep trying. You do have value and you do count. What you do for others matters in ways you'll never know. Everything you write is, what I feel, the story of us and these times we are in. There are days when the weight is too much and those are the days we need to rest, daily life rarely gives us time to rest. All we can do is the best we are able with what we have. When you wish you had someone to stood up for you and didn't, wanting to be heard, those are promises of what I see in the great turning. (and a big part of what motivates me personally as well - I want to be that person I didn't have when I needed it most) Right now we're in the liminal space, there is still unravelling, there is turning. It is beginning. We cant see it. People are demanding justice and equality, the difference now is that so many people are demanding it for people other than just themselves. They're seeing how we're all connected. If any one person doesn't have equality and justice, then none of us do. Thats a huge, powerful change and I feel, a tipping point. (The dark have good reason to be frenzied and afraid - this is so much more powerful than fear) The seeds being planted are empathy, kindness, and the demand of dignity and equality for everyone. No one who truly hears and understands another, accepts them as an equal and sovereign being, can abuse another without seriously damaging themself. Oh they do it now, but so many abusers are so filled with their own hurt and anger they don't feel it. I say "so many" to acknowledge that there are some who are merely very damaged themselves and some who are windigo, they will have to be dealt with collectively, we cannot as individuals. Another critical part will be truly listening to each other's stories and healing each other. I love the story of the starfish. It really represents what we're doing. Except that for every person "we throw back into the ocean", it not only increase the light, and some of them will do the same for another, and it becomes exponential. We have to keep building on that, the dreaded news has to keep us alert to the real danger of complacency. For the dark to win, we don't have to be defeated, we just have to be convinced we are. That is their power - the true big lie - You dont matter, you cant do it, you don't deserve it, you've already failed, just give up. Every small candle we light matters. Our discussion will help you and me, but doing it here, out in the open and in the light, will help others, who we'll never know, to see themselves in it and realize they matter and have something important to contribute to the new story. I'll leave you with a new story that illustrates this. I recently was in a social situation more or less out of obligation. Someone I know superficially. Not something I was looking forward too. Someone who's views make me queasy. One of MTG's fans who's just this side of sanity. I made a conscious decision beforehand not to respond when he started. And, of course, he did. He admits he delights in trolling, as he calls them, the "lib-tards". I find that espscially nauseating and childish. Nonetheless, I didn't respond. I let him go on and I focused my gaze on him as a person, I didn't get distracted by what he said or the totality of the BS he was spewing. I wound up feeling sad for him. I let him know I was hearing him, but I neither agreed nor disagreed. He ran out of steam, everything he was saying is indefensible and he was left trying to justify it and convince me. He couldn't and it began to make him feel awkward - he was rattling on like an idiot and going nowhere. Then something funny happened. Out of the blue, he opened up and began telling me how much he missed his mother, what a good woman she had been, and how his alcoholic father had inflicted so much damage on his family and his childhood. He also told me he didnt really have any friends and he considered me a friend. It didnt change his politics but it opened a door, planted a seed. Transmuted some of his darkness into light. I think thats part of what we have to do. Is it possible with family? Nope. Too close. Will it work on everyone? Nope. and to be very clear, I was in no danger physically, emotionally, or psychically from him. Is it the only thing we can or should do? Nope. Every little seed, every little watering of a seed, every starfish we throw back into the ocean creates a bit more light. We're that close, we need every little bit. Every little bit and every person counts. We need to lift up and support each other but also where its safe - some of the people we fear. They also have stories no one will hear, maybe they can't trust anyone. They are afraid of appearing weak because what happened to them made them feel powerless, right now they are being both abused and offered a lie of power. Helping them wont necessarily change them like we would like, but it changes the balance of light within them. It gives them a piece of light they didn't have. That spark might even start the process of opening their hearts. The turning isn't an event that will happen, its something we will create. We have to keep creating it. And I think we will prevail here, we have already prevailed there.
Yes, every starfish matters. Sometimes in ways we will never know. Sometimes simply our example will positively influence another person to make a positive change or take a positive action.
A beginning... a gathering... to sound the bell... to see the damage , to see the need...and.. to choose a path of action. It begins .... here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-6-2021
Praying for and asking all angels to attend, to assist and Creator guide...G7. Giving thanks to Creator, for so many things, among them? This "place" Jeanne created and started and maintains and all of our Tribe here.
A student who had a Mexican flag in his graduation ceremony got his diploma days after was denied on the day
No surprise there. sometimes I think to myself...don't these people see the consequences a mile away?
Like did he really think he was going to get away with not allowing a student to receive his earned diploma because he wore a Mexican flag? boggles the mind, these things.
Canada had a recent Muslim hate crime incident that killed three
As many of you know the UK is hosting the G7 summit, and the Queen is going to host Biden at Buckingham Palace this Sunday.
From what I've seen so far of the G7 has been really promising. I am so happy to see President Biden and the first lady here in the UK. It feels like a sense of relief to see a real leader again and one who brings decent values back into the Western world.
I think Biden is a really good influence on PM Boris Johnson too, which I hope continues to be a positive influence over the UK, rather than the copycat Trump antics we have been used to seeing from Boris Johnson.
The UK-US relationship looked actually stronger than I've seen it in a long time, just by how highly Biden speaks of the UK. I know it's early days but it is a really good start.
Here's hoping for a really strong relationship moving forward for the US and UK.
Barr is in hot waters again. Using the DOJ subpoena power to get data on Schiff and others
“that prosecutors in Trump's Department of Justice subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of Democratic members of Congress, their staffs and families -- are different in kind. According to The New York Times, Barr even moved a New Jersey-based attorney to the main Justice Department to work on a case related to Rep. Adam Schiff of California, one of the House Democrats whose data was sought. (Barr, the Justice Department and Apple declined to comment on the story to the Times, though the Justice Department's inspector general has said it will investigate.)”
and he also used Gag orders so they wouldn’t even know he was requesting their data.
@jessi1978 We had a prediction about that. That he'd be in hot water when Trump was gone.
Don't ever thing that you can't make an important impact because you are to young (or even too old).
17 year old Darnella Frazier , the young teenager who took the video of George Floyd's murder, just received a special honorary Pulitzer Prize.
In an announcement Friday afternoon, the Pulitzer Prize board commended Frazier “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd,” highlighting “the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quests for truth and justice.”
"As the prosecutors congratulate each other, thinking of young Darnella Frazier. There is no case without her," journalist Ann Marie Lipinski tweeted during Chauvin's trial. "The video record she made is one of the most important civil rights documents in a generation."