THIS IS SO APPROPRIATE TODAY… There were so many quotable passages it was hard to choose. It’s not rocket science. We can all see and feel today that maybe most of us are just now sitting back and letting it all sink in. That’s OK. It’s a good and necessary thing to do as we grasp at a gut and heart level the actuality of where we are, where we have brought ourselves, and the fact that the situation cannot be fixed. With each passing day our options reduce and narrow, leaving us with perhaps the one and most important option of all… How we choose to face death and how our living in the meantime will reveal the true character of our souls. -- MCR ----- “To even be discussing going to war in Syria, banning GMO food crops and fracking, conserving habitat for wolves and whales, building the XL Pipeline, expanding the filthy, cancerous Tar Sands operation, opening millions of acres in the Ecuadorian Amazon to oil drilling, is simply insane. These should be no-brainers. We should not be wasting time on these considerations nor forcing intelligent, earnest citizens to be using their personal un-paid time to fight for these minimal, if not relatively conciliatory, securities. We have urgent work to do far beyond considering more war and pollution; to even consider moving forward with these plagues is radical denial of the big picture… “…Let your heart break in the face of its decimation; sit with that feeling in your body, and let your good mind register the unedited upshot. Of its own accord, in its own time, this sadness can catalyze you, as the passion of devastation. Keep channeling the passion and compassion of your sacredly broken-open heart towards more reverence of nature, one another, and yourself, while acting to protect and enjoy and care for all of it. This is radical embrace. Seek the support and comfort and nurturance of good friends and allies, and nature herself. Let your tears flow and bathe you and the precious ground. Maybe you will decide to sacrifice some of your leisure, distraction, and pleasure time because the pull of your heart trumps your indulgence in “freedom” now for the option to be free tomorrow, or a year from now. This is also why it is helpful to know what’s coming. So, pull in the laundry, close the windows, hunker down, be ready, open your heart, big-time.”
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:58:10 +0000
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