You help me laugh, learn and believe we are all meant to be here for this, the greatest change ever, for civilization and consciousness. Sunday morning with Wiz. Onward, as you say.
I think we've already glimpsed the new systems being built ...I'm thinking of the Twin Cities during Metro Surge in particular. People taking kids to school, shopping for neighbors afraid to leave their houses, raising money to pay rent...so many examples of helping each other. (Teri Leigh documents the movement on Substack.) I'm also privileged to know of a small town organization started by a small group of neighbors that now is an umbrella organization in a county of half a million people...it helps thousands of residents with food, clothing, legal advice, and much more. The majority of their work is done by volunteers, including a weekly supper open to anyone in the community, rich or poor....meals are provided primarily by community business and church groups. Since starting as a small group of neighbors 19 years ago, Sunshine Place in Sun Prairie is a community resource hub. (They have a website.) I see a future for everyone.
I so appreciate your weekly wisdom and it does give me hope. The constant barrage of chaos is overwhelming my anxiety which is exactly as they intended. I am not in the center of the evil like LA, Chicago, and Minnesota and basically living my life as I have been except for the financial impact yet at 70, I fear I won’t last the decades required to see the new world but I am embracing grounding myself in new thought and heart. Thank you for showing us the light in the darkness.
Thank you, Wiz. I so appreciate your brilliant insight. It is hard to believe in this time in America. This piece helped in my journey towards letting go of what isn't working. I do have a loving community, but do suffer with all those who are being abused by the current administration. The hardest part is feeling as though nothing I do has any, even minimal, effect on the current destruction of human beings, as well as material structures and systems. It bruises the heart to witness the inhumanity.
It was happy to see Wiz point this out; a successful strategy implemented by the right to put Democrats in a downward spiral by corrupting themselves to survive in a broken system. Citizens United did exactly that. I remember President Obama during a State of the Union address, shaming the Supreme Court for their United Citizens decision, saying it reversed a century of law opening the floodgates for special interests. Obama was heavily critized for the audacity of stating the truth in the presence of the Supreme Court.
"Republicans have spent decades building a machine designed to make Democratic resistance impossible without Democratic complicity, and that machine is now operational. The Democrats can refuse to use it and lose, or they can use it and win and discover, somewhere on the other side, that they have become the thing they were elected to defeat. Neither of these options preserves what the party claims to stand for. The trap is the trap because the system itself is the problem."
Again another Sunday Wow!! Your words remind me of a knowing I already have but have forgotten. They remain in the seeds, let’s get to the planting, and the tending.
Liked "The system is failing because it was never designed for the scale it’s now being asked to operate at."
I pray we Yanks have the fortitude and commitment to build anew. I hope we can overcome our cultural clannish allegiances and ways of exclusion to start new. I pray we can. It is all hands on deck if we want to get through this!
Thanks, Wis' -- I spelled it that way intentionately because Wizard and Wisdom presumably are from the same root, and you've got it all covered. Also, pronounced the same, in my mind at least.
You help me laugh, learn and believe we are all meant to be here for this, the greatest change ever, for civilization and consciousness. Sunday morning with Wiz. Onward, as you say.
I love the way we all get to gather on Sunday to read what the sky is saying! Thanks for reading, Darlene, as always!
I think we've already glimpsed the new systems being built ...I'm thinking of the Twin Cities during Metro Surge in particular. People taking kids to school, shopping for neighbors afraid to leave their houses, raising money to pay rent...so many examples of helping each other. (Teri Leigh documents the movement on Substack.) I'm also privileged to know of a small town organization started by a small group of neighbors that now is an umbrella organization in a county of half a million people...it helps thousands of residents with food, clothing, legal advice, and much more. The majority of their work is done by volunteers, including a weekly supper open to anyone in the community, rich or poor....meals are provided primarily by community business and church groups. Since starting as a small group of neighbors 19 years ago, Sunshine Place in Sun Prairie is a community resource hub. (They have a website.) I see a future for everyone.
I so appreciate your weekly wisdom and it does give me hope. The constant barrage of chaos is overwhelming my anxiety which is exactly as they intended. I am not in the center of the evil like LA, Chicago, and Minnesota and basically living my life as I have been except for the financial impact yet at 70, I fear I won’t last the decades required to see the new world but I am embracing grounding myself in new thought and heart. Thank you for showing us the light in the darkness.
Thank you, Wiz. I so appreciate your brilliant insight. It is hard to believe in this time in America. This piece helped in my journey towards letting go of what isn't working. I do have a loving community, but do suffer with all those who are being abused by the current administration. The hardest part is feeling as though nothing I do has any, even minimal, effect on the current destruction of human beings, as well as material structures and systems. It bruises the heart to witness the inhumanity.
It was happy to see Wiz point this out; a successful strategy implemented by the right to put Democrats in a downward spiral by corrupting themselves to survive in a broken system. Citizens United did exactly that. I remember President Obama during a State of the Union address, shaming the Supreme Court for their United Citizens decision, saying it reversed a century of law opening the floodgates for special interests. Obama was heavily critized for the audacity of stating the truth in the presence of the Supreme Court.
"Republicans have spent decades building a machine designed to make Democratic resistance impossible without Democratic complicity, and that machine is now operational. The Democrats can refuse to use it and lose, or they can use it and win and discover, somewhere on the other side, that they have become the thing they were elected to defeat. Neither of these options preserves what the party claims to stand for. The trap is the trap because the system itself is the problem."
Thank you Wiz for giving us direction and hope. 💖
Again another Sunday Wow!! Your words remind me of a knowing I already have but have forgotten. They remain in the seeds, let’s get to the planting, and the tending.
Liked "The system is failing because it was never designed for the scale it’s now being asked to operate at."
I pray we Yanks have the fortitude and commitment to build anew. I hope we can overcome our cultural clannish allegiances and ways of exclusion to start new. I pray we can. It is all hands on deck if we want to get through this!
Thanks, Wis' -- I spelled it that way intentionately because Wizard and Wisdom presumably are from the same root, and you've got it all covered. Also, pronounced the same, in my mind at least.