Lots of stuff in your experience we can all relate to… about our personal situation and where the country finds itself. The conspiracists, like your briefcase scamming accuser have larger than life platforms. The vex of immediate gratification for greed by the ‘haves,’ are gaining both momentum and… velocity… over the much too willing ‘have nots.’ As you mention, the demons that we all have and that you generously allow to those whose view of the world we find incomprehensible, especially politically, are real things. We are being led by people who were not only not ‘raised right,’ but who themselves were damaged, abused, misguided and/or bullied by their mentors or parents and relatives and who are now determined to punish humanity as well. I mean, have you ever seen a more humorless group of monsters in your life? So the clarity that comes to me from your experience includes the [urgent] recognition of where we are, of the role immediate gratification plays in the perpetration of evil and that its counterpart, patient dedication to the truth can only be part of the solution over what seems like a mind numbingly long period of time. Here I’m am reminded of the closing words of Victoria Safford’s opus, ‘The Gates of Hope’… about perhaps the loneliest of all places, “the place of truth-telling, about our own soul, first of all and its condition, that place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, as as it will be; we stand there beckoning and calling, telling people what we are seeing, asking people what they are seeing. This place from which we glimpse not only the struggle, but joy in the struggle.”
Thank you for your words, Jessica. You still have a reservoir of ‘stuff’ waiting to break out. Keep writing. 🤓
Lots of stuff in your experience we can all relate to… about our personal situation and where the country finds itself. The conspiracists, like your briefcase scamming accuser have larger than life platforms. The vex of immediate gratification for greed by the ‘haves,’ are gaining both momentum and… velocity… over the much too willing ‘have nots.’ As you mention, the demons that we all have and that you generously allow to those whose view of the world we find incomprehensible, especially politically, are real things. We are being led by people who were not only not ‘raised right,’ but who themselves were damaged, abused, misguided and/or bullied by their mentors or parents and relatives and who are now determined to punish humanity as well. I mean, have you ever seen a more humorless group of monsters in your life? So the clarity that comes to me from your experience includes the [urgent] recognition of where we are, of the role immediate gratification plays in the perpetration of evil and that its counterpart, patient dedication to the truth can only be part of the solution over what seems like a mind numbingly long period of time. Here I’m am reminded of the closing words of Victoria Safford’s opus, ‘The Gates of Hope’… about perhaps the loneliest of all places, “the place of truth-telling, about our own soul, first of all and its condition, that place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, as as it will be; we stand there beckoning and calling, telling people what we are seeing, asking people what they are seeing. This place from which we glimpse not only the struggle, but joy in the struggle.”
Thank you for your words, Jessica. You still have a reservoir of ‘stuff’ waiting to break out. Keep writing. 🤓
Thank you as always for your incredibly nuanced and thoughtful reply... and for being such a supportive and present reader and friend!
Gorgeous funny electrifying and true, as always.