frustrates and invigorates me....
it's something like this-
For a good 20 years
I cared
cried
complained
insisted
resisted
rebelled
tuned in
tuned out
indulged
ignored
exclaimed
embraced
questioned
judged
improved
degraded
rejected
and accepted....
all those things-
in regard to the state and heading of the human community,
and it's impact on this planet home we call Earth....
this exquisite ball of infinite miracles, with which I fall in love again each new day.
Every step of the way, all that I have and have not done and felt for the Earth, I have also experienced upon and within mySelf.
Throughout this human existence of mine, there were times I felt there was little I could rely on to help or heal me in a sustainable way, but Earth- yes, always Earth. All ways, all days, despite my contradictory acts, motives, and statements. The vast mercy of Mother- not to be taken for granted. If Mother isn't well, the child can cease to thrive with the quickness.
Now, upon and within me, there is a clearing, brought on by a startlingly deep, and initially, incredibly frightening surrender to what Is, in a way I have never before. I don't claim to have mastered it this time either. I am saying it's a new level for me.
Today, I find I don't want to hear 'it' anymore. I don't want the memes, the links, the updates, the images, the statistics, the endless centripetal argument, collapsing in upon itself. (Ha, the black hole that will come of that will suck all our problems away, so I suppose it's legit in that context).
Always preaching to the choir. I'd rather sing with them!
Fucking insanity....doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. If we don't like how it is, we have the option and the capacity to do something different. Different makes the difference. It's all right there in the word.
In the phrase "make a difference", the operative word is 'make'.
Make art, make a garden, make food, make clothes, make prayer, make meditation, make an invention, make a donation, make a statement, make a stand, make a mistake, make up for it...
MAKE A DISCOVERY
MAKE A COMPROMISE
MAKE PROGRESS
MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOURSELF
MAKE A CHANGE...
MAKE LOVE, BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!
Just make something! It helps.
It has been said that the greatest suffering is a result of a sense of not making progress. People of the most utterly depressed, depraved, and deprived conditions wear and share authentic smiles, streaming with gratitude, because the contrast to their dire situations cause the progress they make to glow brilliantly!
Must it be so dire for us to see the light?
I have observed the answer, and there is logic to it, of the alpha/omega variety. Okay, I accept that.
So, let's go here:
Are you happy?
If so, is that happiness sustainable?
Do you feel sustainable?
Fill in this blank. Put in as many words as you like:
"If I lost _________, I could not go on."
If it doesn't sprout, spray or sprawl of the earth, peruse the waters, fall from the sky, or cycle organically through your heart, mind, body and Spirit, it is not sustainable, and you will likely come to a moment in your life when you will have to do without it. Those things; the earth, ocean, sky, hearts, minds, bodies, and Spirits- those are the things most compromised at this time. Without the sustenance of nature, there is no life to fill with all our attachments.
SHARE WHAT YOU MAKE,
and MAKE ANOTHER HAPPY,
for what you do to and for others,
you do to and for yourself,
and vice-versa....
MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY!
Get sustainable.....it's the new, new, New Deal. The only deal, and the closest thing to real in this often daunting, yet ever dazzling dream you can get.
With Love, and lots of Faith,
Gaia Love One~
