your video of everything passes was lovely music and duet dancing in the grasses, reminding me in this dark time hold onto the truth this too shall pass, everything passes.
I don't really know, Christie- it's good to remember that which is inalienable - there is only one thing- and it's not our so-called rights because those are being stripped from us one way or another. I forwarded your piece to an activist friend who is in some despair, and she said it did not lift her spirits; when you have worked a lifetime in the trenches seeking justice, this is a dark moment. She loved the song- that rings it out for sure. Her whole family are teachers and community-oriented, doctors- hard working people that care.
I found your piece to be rich with reminders- those are our unalienable rights, or qualities- born on the planet, alive, with mind and heart still beating. There is vision. When one loses hope, vision fades. Some are losing hope. In that sense, reading your piece offers a renewed chance to find it again.
Thank you Lauri, I knew as I wrote it there would be many like your friend, who have worked so hard and face the devastation squarely knowing all the suffering it will cause, and my clinging to the promise of inalienable rights to those people may seem frivolous and naïve, for we face an enemy who has no heart, and a hunger for blood. But I decided to go ahead with it, because in the end, I can only be who I am, and while there are many who are horses pulling great loads, some of us are just birds, hoping to contribute a song.
thank you christine that resonated with me on so many levels / your unalienable words and the music and the spirit of your post / yes we are in a metamorphosis moment / it will happen as more and more people wake up "We all have a hammer, a bell, and a song to sing. We just need to use them, ring them, and sing them." amen / see you at the rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjHolXmPqVQ
your video of everything passes was lovely music and duet dancing in the grasses, reminding me in this dark time hold onto the truth this too shall pass, everything passes.
I don't really know, Christie- it's good to remember that which is inalienable - there is only one thing- and it's not our so-called rights because those are being stripped from us one way or another. I forwarded your piece to an activist friend who is in some despair, and she said it did not lift her spirits; when you have worked a lifetime in the trenches seeking justice, this is a dark moment. She loved the song- that rings it out for sure. Her whole family are teachers and community-oriented, doctors- hard working people that care.
I found your piece to be rich with reminders- those are our unalienable rights, or qualities- born on the planet, alive, with mind and heart still beating. There is vision. When one loses hope, vision fades. Some are losing hope. In that sense, reading your piece offers a renewed chance to find it again.
Thank you Lauri, I knew as I wrote it there would be many like your friend, who have worked so hard and face the devastation squarely knowing all the suffering it will cause, and my clinging to the promise of inalienable rights to those people may seem frivolous and naïve, for we face an enemy who has no heart, and a hunger for blood. But I decided to go ahead with it, because in the end, I can only be who I am, and while there are many who are horses pulling great loads, some of us are just birds, hoping to contribute a song.
We birds. We just do our thing. Thank you for singing your song.
thank you too!
thank you christine that resonated with me on so many levels / your unalienable words and the music and the spirit of your post / yes we are in a metamorphosis moment / it will happen as more and more people wake up "We all have a hammer, a bell, and a song to sing. We just need to use them, ring them, and sing them." amen / see you at the rally
Amen, Rohn, see you at the rally, like one of the Universities Without Walls, it's everywhere, in all our thoughts and feelings!
Oh my! Yes!
Thanks, Lauri...We can do it, right?
...Xtie...yr optimism itself is to be applauded...pretty much 'on the road'
(europe, tunisia, turkey-india) 3 yrs running...leaving as much US war/greed/holier-than-thou culture in septic fields...
...still what remained was/is profoundly american dna...why furthest unbridled oregon forest insisted i be therein allied. in-&-un-a-lie-
nable rights may happen inwardly...golden rule yet always applies...kindness
& generosity a priori...simple prayers...gratitude & compassion...