i wanted the pic to be CLEAR. tried over and over. this is best it got and still….not quite. Why? and i think….maybe because it is in motion, the essential being. I envisioned These today, moving out There amidst tree branches, one hovered overhead.
if interested, go back to Liz's comment yesterday it set free all manner of things.
Just read this from Rebecca Solnit and want to put it here for others to read:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/ten-ways-confront-climate-crisis-without-losing-hope-rebecca-solnit-reconstruction-after-covid
This section in particular, #3, Look Beyond the Individual and Find Good People, especially resonated with me:
“When I ask people what they’re doing about the climate crisis, they often cite virtuous lifestyle choices, such as being vegan or not flying. Those are good things to do. They are also relatively insignificant. The world must change, but it won’t happen because one person does or does not consume something – and I would prefer we not imagine ourselves primarily as consumers.
As citizens of the Earth, we have a responsibility to participate. As citizens massed together, we have the power to affect change, and it is only on that scale that enough change can happen. Individual choices can slowly scale up, or sometimes be catalysts, but we’ve run out of time for the slow. It is not the things we refrain from doing, but those things we do passionately, and together, that will count the most. And personal change is not separate from collective change: in a municipality powered by clean energy, for instance, everyone is a clean-energy consumer.
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If you live on a diet of mainstream news – which focuses on celebrities and elected politicians, and reserves the term “powerful” for high-profile and wealthy individuals – you will be told in a thousand ways that you have no role in the fate of the Earth, beyond your consumer choices.
Movements, campaigns, organizations, alliances and networks are how ordinary people become powerful – so powerful that you can see they inspire terror in elites, governments and corporations alike, who devote themselves to trying to stifle and undermine them. But these places are also where you meet dreamers, idealists, altruists – people who believe in living by principle. You meet people who are hopeful, or even more than hopeful: great movements often begin with people fighting for things that seem all but impossible at the outset, whether an end to slavery, votes for women or rights for LGTBQ+ people”…
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love your Grace note
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Thank YOU so much, Marti…i read the Whole of it and it is so real and true. Thank you for sharing this here
Love,
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I love it for where it takes me…far beyond any
understanding and intention of my own
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Grace your words or like mine
We have NOT to ” fight ” for (
the good or the bad way )
we have just to ” lived it “
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yes. we to just live it. softly, fiercely, with committment.
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Marti – I do watch and read the “mainstream news” (although admittedly the more left-leaning) and often find myself saying “but what can we DO about it?” … and so, when Rachel Maddow recently opined (and here I paraphrase), “It is in direct action, showing up, protesting in the streets that change is effected” I thought about the anti-war protests, equal rights protests, civil rights protests … these did indeed result in change. It’s discouraging because it’s never “one and done” … it needs to be an ongoing commitment to make the time to show up, however and whenever we can. There’s so much to do, all of it so urgently needed.
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