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The Webs We Weave

10/31/2020

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Halloween 2020
finds our country in
the middle of
a particularly 
scary
political season.

There's plenty
of fear to go around...

Fear of COVID-19,
Fear of economic uncertainty,
Fear of climate change, 
Fear of election results,
Fear of political unrest...

Fear of each other.

The impending
presidential election
is making many of us,
along all parts
of the political spectrum,
 anxious.

It's easy
to let ourselves
spin
out of control
with worry.

Let's not let
ourselves

get
tangled 
up
in
each other's 
sticky
social media

webs
of
misinformation
and
insults
and
distrust.


Let's try
to keep our
fears in check
through this
election week
and then focus
on
weaving
a different
kind of
 political climate
in the future
together.

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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

10/19/2020

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Picture
I went for a walk on the beach today
​at sunrise to clear my head.  
So much noise in the lead-up to the election...
I was looking for a way to replace
the buzz of the internet
with a more natural sound.
Along the coast,
all I could hear was the
​reassuring rhythm of the waves.  
Crash, pause, crash, pause, crash, pause...
Picture
While I let the sound wash over me,
my gaze turned to the ground...
Picture
Hearts everywhere! 

Some whole,
some broken,
some small,
some large...

All together
in one beautiful
​carpet of green,
punctuated by purple...
Picture
The purple flowers
​were all closed
when I arrived at the beach,
​but as the sun rose,
they gradually began
to welcome a new day.
​
Bit by bit,
they opened to the
warmth of the sun...
 
Picture
And then,
as I watched and waited,
I thought I saw a tiny bird...
but then realized
it was a giant bee.  

A sturdy beach bee
dutifully pollinating 
the purple flowers.  
It had large wings
to navigate the
​strong winds...
Picture
Can you find it?
The bee was confident
and undeterred...
and successful.

The stretch of green hearts
​and purple flowers
up and and down the beach
was a testament to its labor...
Picture
Here we are, friends...
Two weeks from the 2020 election.

A nation of fragile hearts,
punctuated with a few
islands of purple thought.

Whatever the outcome
of this crazy election, 
we are going to need
purple thinking 
to chart a path forward
that will include 
all
​of the
precious hearts
in our nation. 

It takes
persistent bees
to keep
pollinating
purple thought 
in these
challenging times, 
but we can do it. 
​
​Buzz, buzz, buzz...
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