The world is still beautiful 💖

The Poetry of Resistance 🇵🇸

Dear Courageous,

As the world seems to be getting more crazy , violent and uncertain, I feel in need of soothing for my body and soul.

To be present , to witness and to care about the suffering is exhausting. Yet it is the traumatic and necessary work we must do, so the alchemy of transformation can occur . For us individually and the collective this is a pivotal time of good and evil, a battle for love to prevail 🧡

When the world get to much to bear, I encourage you to get into the wonder of small things . As Wendell Berry’s reminds in his famous poem

The Peace of Wild things …

“I rest in the grace of the world and I am free”,

Because you can only do this work and live consciously if you cultivate strength and peace internally. That is why I am so grateful to

Marigold 🏵️

for bringing this wonderful poem to my attention.

Marigold calls her post “Poetry that tends to my pain for this world 💔”.

Testimony, by Rebecca Baggett

for my daughters

I want to tell you

that the world is still beautiful.

I tell you that despite

children raped on city streets,

shot down in school rooms,

despite the slow poisons seeping

from old and hidden sins

into our air, soil, water,

despite the thinning film

that encloses our aching world.

Despite my own terror and despair.

I want you to look again and again,

to recognize the tender grasses,

curled like a baby's fine hairs

around your fingers, as a recurring

miracle, to see that the river rocks

shine like God, that the crisp

voices of the orange and gold

October leaves are laughing at death.

I want you to look beneath

the grass, to note

the fragile hieroglyphs

of ant, snail, beetle. I want

you to understand that you are

no more and no less necessary

than the brown recluse, the ruby-

throated hummingbird, the humpback

whale, the profligate mimosa.

I want to say, like Neruda,

that I am waiting for

"a great and common tenderness,"

that I still believe

we are capable of attention,

that anyone who notices the world

must want to save it.

There is so much going on and we always have choices about what we give our attention to . May you find comfort, soothing and joy in your days, especially the dark ones.

With Love,

Recommendations

Here are 2 Podcast recommendations that are really worthy of your valuable time.

This is a rich conversation about love, survival and relationships . I particularly loved the ending when Adrienne Marie Brown was asked how she survives ?

I adore this podcast, the language of Caroline weaving in music and wisdom for these times. This includes an inspiring speech from Anonymous about how we resist 💪🏽💖💪