@barry I hope you see from the number of likes on your last post that you hit a chord with people here. For every "like" there are over time a few thousand or more people reading and enjoying but they have to register and get an account to hit like.
@dannyboy perfect sense.
I have been dredging our creek by hand over the last two months (laborious but worth it -- keeps our wetlands clean, good exercise, and creates good "edges" for our amphibian friends) and I recently couldn't shake the feeling that the land was trying very hard to say something along the lines of "Good morning!"
The message itself wasn't nearly as important as the feeling of connection. I can't explain it any better than you did, I just know it was real.
Thank you @jeanne-mayell for the encouragement, I’m here!
I do have and will have more to share. My apologies for not acknowledging everyone’s welcoming. Im very grateful. Im so happy it resonated with you @Ghandigirl (hi!) and others (hi!). Im also feeling what @dannyboy and everyone seems to be feeling about the coming spring. There is something different about this spring. It feels like that suspended moment, before I understood quite what was happening, on a Saturday last November when I was working outside, getting everything taken care of before the snow, and my wife asked if I heard people shouting. I stopped and listened and started hearing people - now up and down the streets of our quiet, sleepy little town - coming out of their homes - but they were cheering. Car horns started honking. Our phones started lighting up with texts, all saying the same thing - we won! The same feeling of hopeful promise seems to be in the air, like everything has suddenly changed. This is what I sense: Seeds beginning to sprout. Seeds that are offering their promise of what’s to come. Seeds that need to be nourished to grow into fullness.
I was prompted to look up promise: A declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen. The potential for achievement or excellence. An indication that something is likely to occur. Covenant, bond, sacred word.
I started thinking on that. We’re right where Jeanne laid out in her timeline. The seeds of progress growing towards the turning that we’ve tended so far are pretty impressive - looking back over where we were. Marginalized and victimized voices are no longer crying out alone. They are being joined and supported by a growing majority calling for unconditional equality and acceptance. For healing. Just weeks ago (or was it a lifetime ago?) old whatshisname seemed unstoppable. He is fading fast. (His promise to drain the swamp also appears likely to be fulfilled) The new guy is defying odds and doing what could only be dreamt a few months ago. Looking back a few years, we are collectively becoming (and already are) so different than we were. These are still seeds. We’re fulfilling the promise of whats to come. For those who haven’t accepted the shift, the great unraveling will continue. Their struggles to cling to their old ways are dominating the news. The unravelling is a letting go, many dread that if they let go of what they fear or created, it will come back and devour them. Its a terrible place to choose to be. It's also part of the timeline. Everyone has their own place within it. This is spring. Its mud season for some. Summer comes all the same.
I also hear what @journeywithme2 posted - the earth is singing a song for all who are listening. It’s a new song welcoming us home. @jeanne-mayell - That song is the source of the chords :)
@barry "Mud season" is brilliant. Especially here in the North Carolina Piedmont. I am a Texas transplant, so the idea that there is rain all year round is novel, but it underscores what every gardener knows: the best veggies are grown by somebody not afraid of getting more than just a little wet chicken poop on their hands from time to time. If that ain't a metaphor for life in the 2020s, I'm gonna send my literature degree back to UT and say thanks for attempting to educate me. :)
Can't take credit; read it elsewhere. And the first letter of his name was changed to a different letter than T!!
@polarberry Was it "Mucker"? It was "Mucker", wasn't it? ???
Florida Senator and former Governor Rick Scott is telling states and towns to turn away Covid relief funds. Obama got us out of George Bush's recession with relief money. Biden is going to get us out of an impending recession with covid relief money.
The way to stoke an economy is not to give money to the rich the way Bush and Trump did, but to the people.
But Rick Scott advises otherwise. Well, all I can think about when I think of Rick Scott is this woman's words in one of my favorite YouTube moments of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYzgTLoQjY