I’d taken the entire month of February as a “news media fast.”
It has been staggering to tune back in the last few weeks. I can barely get my mind around what we are in the midst of at the moment.
My eighty-year-old father who was born into a world on the brink of world war, a marine during the Cuban missile crisis, survived cancer and was one of the lucky ones at the World Trade Center told me he hasn’t seen anything like this in his lifetime.
I’ve been hopscotching through thoughts and feelings. Everything from keeping positive to a pounding in my heart. I’ve been waking up with such a surreal feeling. Each day the count goes higher and the wave of uncertainty keeps rolling towards us. At the same time, the birds are singing with all their might and green things are finding their way back to the light.
There will be a before and there will be an after. This is the uncharted now. This is the season of unknowing.
I’ve collected some photos of one of the Eden Experiment paintings to share with you and here are some hellebores I picked from my garden because it really is Spring…May you be well in all things!
“One of the most important steps you can take to help calm the storm is to not allow yourself to be taken in a flurry of overwrought emotion or despair – thereby accidentally contributing to the swale and the swirl. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.
It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts – adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take “everyone on Earth” to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
…One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.”
