Instead of...
Day 19/100Day Project
I am sad and frustrated that we have lost so many opportunities to improve our lives, our environment, our collaborations and connections with the rest of the world. The work that is truly needed right now is being pushed aside.
Instead of:
investing in renewable energy
conducting life-saving health research
finding creative solutions to homelessness
making sure that all people are taken care of and can live with dignity (healthcare, childcare, eldercare)
bringing down our carbon and methane footprints as a nation and collaborating with the rest of the world to ensure survival for future generations
developing an excellent public education system to raise young people capable of meeting the demands of this fast-changing, overheating planet
becoming the world’s role model for multi-cultural and multi-racial coexistence
banning warfare for good - how primitive to kill people, bomb their homes, schools, businesses, and infrastructure into oblivion, burn oil refineries and energy centers - the losses, the pollution, the heartbreak… generational PTSD guaranteed.
We must instead:
Protect ourselves and our neighbors from rogue bands of mercenaries kidnapping, assaulting and killing us in the streets
Help journalists, students, protesters and others stay out of jail and continue their work of truth finding and truth speaking
Pressure the legal system to do its job and expose and punish the pedophiles still running government, banking and industry, domestically and internationally
Envision and implement new political systems that prevent the uber-wealthy from controlling politics, from impoverishing the remainder of the population, distorting our sense of reality with manipulated news, getting us to fight each other instead of recognizing the true enemy, and robbing the earth’s remaining resources to keep adding to their obscene wealth.
Wake up daily to disturbing headlines and challenges to our emotional balance, and pick priorities because we just can’t do it all. So often we can’t do the things we really want to do, that make our hearts sing and make us feel whole.
And, yet, through the chaos, nature reminds us of a longer-term agenda, of seasonal cycles and patterns that follow eternal laws. Nature reminds us it is spring again. There is comfort in that. And hope. And resilience.
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