@jeanne-mayell, thank you for reposting everything that got deleted in restoring to 8/21/22 backup. I'm sure that took a lot of your time to accomplish. Most of all, thank you for ensuring that our voices are heard and for caring so much about our community!
I thought some of you might appreciate the attached piece by John Pavlovitz. Even though our world feels overwhelming right now, he reminds us of the importance in keeping our hearts opened and engaged. May we continue to care for each other, all sentient beings, and our planet, and also remember to care for ourselves.
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/03/07/you-should-be-weary-right-now/
@deetoo Thank you for that.
I would add that when we feel the most weary and cynical, that is the best time to go out of our way to perform some random act of kindness. Feed a parking meter, give a fiver (!) to a panhandler without judgement, admire someone's t-shirt, shoes, earrings, dog, car... whatever (as long as you are sincere), hold doors for people, pick up trash on a trail... anything. It will strengthen you even if the beneficiary of your deed never even knows you did it.
Oh @kateinpdx, I did not take your posts like that at all. I found them compelling and true. And yes I do agree places definitely hold the energy and history of events and feelings.
Growing up in the middle south I've often visited the Lowcountry. Groves of those old live oaks there have such a deeply uplifting presence. Though two years ago I visited a spot by a coastal river with live oaks and rambling old camellias, an abandoned place right within the town; it felt so bad, oddly dangerous even, that I felt I had to leave quickly and did. Now that I think about it, it was January of 2020 and I kept having impressions of that place being an unconsecrated dumping ground for bodies of people who had died centuries ago from epidemics like yellow fever. Some kind of resonance with or harbinger of Covid on the horizon?
Probably that hungry intersection that your client mentioned needed energy clearing, and maybe also a traffic engineer to make adjustments!
Thank you, Kateinpdx, for your post which prompted me to think about all this. The energy of places can be changed, with intention and alignment with the highest good.
Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It.
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke.
This article made me grin like crazy. Biden knew what he was doing, unlike TFG he's got his sanity in check.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/trump-pennsylvania-rally-republicans/671344/
@unk-p This, to put it bluntly, pissed me off greatly. I actually emailed all the channels about there failure to show our President. But the fact that they showed his speech and not our leader's speech, makes me so freaking mad.
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On the topic of monarchy, I have been thinking about it with all that has gone on. I can't help but wonder if there actually is a place for it in a 'modern' system. I'm not saying "let the king do whatever they want" but more as a guiding light and an institutional memory. I wonder what the future will bring to monarchy, will it slowly go away or could there be an actual revival as we realize having that could be useful. Either way its interesting to think about.
Renée Graham@reneeygrahamABC, NBC, and CBS are all airing Charles's first speech as king. None of them aired President Biden's primetime speech about the ongoing threats to American democracy.Newsflash to the Media: The British actually lost the War of American Independence
Frankly we would have fared better had the Revolution failed. Just MHO.
Agree that it's time for the British monarchy to fade into the sunset. I strongly suspect that once Charles passes, William will be reforming the system, not sure how though. Other countries with parliamentary systems don't rely on a monarch.