@walden-ponderer Yup, the best gardens grow in the best poop and its not gonna put itself in that garden! Sure seems like we started a big garden the last couple of years… In Maine, we have all 4 seasons - summer (4th of July weekend), fall, winter, mud season. Not in any particular order either. Friday it was in the 50’s and muddy. This morning we woke up to 10 degrees and gale force winds, no mud today!
Based on your use of the term “mud season” and the fact that you were preparing for snow in early November, I thought you lived in northern New England ?. And since your neighbors were vocally pro-Biden, I’m guessing you’re on the coast anywhere between York and Hancock Counties?
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:
I try to be positive and not too personal but... RS is indeed an evil a-hole and corrupt to the core. (FYI that was my neighborhood Starbucks! I'm so proud. ? )
I mostly live in Connecticut but am living temporarily in Rhode Island (it’s complicated). I’m only a sometimes visitor to Maine; I once spent a month in the town of Surry, if that means anything to you.
I don't think anything has made me angrier than reading today that Trump is now encouraging the vaccine. I think he did that for that headline and I should not allow it to get to me, but when I think about what really happened it is just a bridge too far.
I scroll on past normally. Wish he, and those who wish to amplify the insanity, would just go away already.
I don't think anything has made me angrier than reading today that Trump is now encouraging the vaccine. I think he did that for that headline
I don't like it at all when attention is brought to that individual. The less energy fed to iT, the better.
However--- if it means more people get vaccinated as a result, that is a plus for society. Fewer potential hosts for the virus is good for all of us.
@ghandigirl @ana is right - don't let the wendigo hurt you by feeding it. it’s starving, let it.
@enkasongwriter. I think we can expect a greater effort to wake people up to this hate and stop it.
@jeanne-mayell Do you see things change for the better after Trump passes? After WWII ended, Hitler's dark energy dissipated, or rather, ended in the fringes.
Why is this headline a sign of hope?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says only 0.1 percent of Trump administration’s covid farm relief went to Black farmers
Because it came from within the Administration, not from some watchdog organization that needs to monitor the Administration. We will continue to have watchdogs monitor the USDA, but now we have a USDA Secretary who has vowed to reverse the inequities of the past.
Of the 3.4 million farmers in the United States today, only 45,000 — 1.3 percent — are Black, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s down from 1 million a century ago, because of widespread land loss.
Vilsack said the Biden administration would be focused on closing those inequalities. The USDA will battle three systemic problems concurrently, he said: a broken farm system, food insecurity and a health-care crisis. - WAPO
So many signs of hope with these Administration confirmations. I am blinking my eyes to adjust to this new good reality. We will need to work hard to hold on to the blue Congress and continue all the good that is unfolding. (More on that later, although there is an election coming in Virginia that needs our help).
First, Biden's appointing qualified people who are true advocates and proven administrators over the issues they will be handling. (This is in contrast to Trump appointees who were often not qualified and also represented the fox guarding the henhouse).
Second, he's using these appointments to advance racial, gender, and minority rights.
It's a cabinet of Firsts.
Dr. Rachel Levine: The first openly trans-gender person confirmed for Health Secretary.
Dr. Rachel Levine's confirmation makes her the first openly transgender individual to be approved by the Senate as well as the highest-ranking transgender federal official. And as the former health director of Pennsylvania, she handled their pandemic response and also is experienced in HIV, drug addiction and other key health problems confronting our nation.
Deb Haaland - The First Native American confirmed for Secretary of the Interior
Deb Haaland is the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department and the first to lead the federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation’s tribes for nearly two centuries.
This is a huge step in potentially reversing not only the travesties of the Trump Administration, but hundreds of years of injustice to Native Americans as well as the last fifty years of supporting the fossil fuel companies over pipeline rights.
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay man to lead Transportation.
Xavier Becerra the first Latino to head the Department of Health and Human Services— a symbolic nomination at a time when Latinos are disproportionately affected by the medical and economic affects of the coronavirus pandemic.
This is happening because we have a blue Congress and a Democratic president. We need to hold on to these majorities. The Republicans are going all out to remove people of color and other voters who vote democratic from the rolls. If you are an activist, this is the time to re-engage to hold on to these majorities.
@jeanne-mayell With hopeful people, the change will be beneficial to the common people. I sense we will have a green new deal eventually, where debts are more manageable.
This is happening because we have a blue Congress and a Democratic president. We need to hold on to these majorities. The Republicans are going all out to remove people of color and other voters who vote democratic from the rolls. If you are an activist, this is the time to re-engage to hold on to these majorities.
The GOP is making a lot of impotent noise. All of the news snippets I've seen about their conduct lately points not just to a party in decline, but a certain energy that has worn itself out and is trying desperately to avoid the inevitable.
Activism can also be spiritual, remember. I live with my parents right now, and they receive the print edition of the New York Times daily. Every time I see the paper lying in the kitchen in the morning, my guides are telling me to avoid news intake and focus instead on my spiritual growth. News organizations only know what they have experienced in our waking linear time. That's why, on a daily basis, you'll find contributors from across the political spectrum in the NYT pages trying to sell a doom soup of "Democrats will lose their majority in the Senate very soon" or "America will never change." Don't feed that beast. News media likes to play the part of oracle and is closer to the Occult than it wants to acknowledge.
But my soul (most of our souls) knows differently. When I am in meditation or writing creatively, I am also making the light more available to the collective at large, even when I'm unaware of it. Yes, we need physical activists to get out into the streets and write letters. But we also need more spiritual activists who can duel with the dark without even leaving their homes.
Activism can also be spiritual, remember
I so agree with you. I feel that our thoughts elevate others' thoughts. Our Circle of Light also did amazing work to help move the country forward.