 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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 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...  While I let the sound wash over me, my gaze turned to the ground...  Hearts everywhere! Some whole, some broken, some small, some large... All together in one beautiful carpet of green, punctuated by purple...  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...  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...  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...  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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