SO HERE WE ARE TAKING UP SPACE

 

on this continent  almost  destroyed by an ideology that idolizes power. 

It's as though we can get all we want by creating rules that keep out humanity. Although we agonize on the effectiveness of systems, we mostly find ways to shut out human needs like safety, food, clean air and hope.

To do this we look for fast effective ways to shut up the majority of people, broadcast the voices of a special few, look for new ways of silencing the emotional needs for hope, home, food, air and social organization for kindness. We breed anxiety, a desire for ways of shutting everyone up.

Please don't look for AI to provide the answer when the most power lives in the imaginations of oligarchic fantasies of personal superiority. We must mend the broken human heart.

It's At Times Like These

... I need to remind myself of all the beautiful things in the world.

First my husband who takes care of me, day and night. He has a positive attitude to weather and bad news.

I haven't got anything to worry about, myself, but human society looks to be falling apart. I have long thought America was a powerful country. It is rich, had many positive developments, and yet its social fabric is falling apart. Why? White Supremacy. Wealthy interests have this need to keep telling us we are under threat by positive things like democracy, warnings of inequality in wealth. Billionaires hoarding money in fear that others will not be manipulated by the glamour of wealth.

The future is not and never has been static. We cannot assume that class will remain influential to all. There are no assurances we won't suffer climate change. There is blame against the people who warn climate change needs to be addressed. 

White Supremacy, male dominance, wealth privilege, are all temporary. Times change, people change, we learn new ways to survive. The King and Queen may have a lot of wealth but the masses are always learning.

Forget the power of Trump, patriarchy and all the banks. Yes they have a lot of power but ordinary people struggling to make ends meet have something else. Love of life.

We have ways of getting information, which is dangerous, untrue and disturbing. Millionaires, schmillionaires! And we invent our future by doing and using our creative intelligence. 

Mary Jane

Thanks for the chocolate cake it was fabulous. Thanks for coming to visit. Thanks for holding on to your beliefs, your kindness and your integrity. 

The Politics of Democracy Works Only When We Engage

 So much news about survival and politics these days. The commentary often include predictions on what the powerful will do and how we, the victims can fight back but fighting is so harmful. Do we want to keep looking over our shoulder debating alternatives, summing up our chances of winning? Do we really want to see this planet as a commodity to win? Furthermore do we want to see our relationships as win or lose games? My wins depend on your losses. It feels like carrying weapons responsibly.

But aren't we missing the point if winning is the only game? It seems to me we are part of the solution. We are not living in a win or lose world. We live with uncertainty. Jesus of Nazareth created feasts of hope not live or die, not a competition, if I believe the bible is true. But Jesus is not available for conversations. Since then we have learned from Martin Luther King, Mary Oliver, Carl Jung, Simone de Bouvoir and others who try to reach us.