Coming Together

My son made a film on The Singularity.  I keep seeing the images, the rapid movement to the change.  It ends with a brother and sister together again, watching, not knowing, as AI takes over.  The image of Musk with a chainsaw at a gathering of conservatives is hard to shake and then I come to Robert Hubbell and Rebecca Solnit and I rise in an inner knowing that we come together for good.

You can read Rebecca Solnit’s essays at the link below but this is a taste of inspiration to keep us all going, gathered, and together.

Rebecca Solnit: Everywhere I went it felt like people were trying harder than usual to show up, to connect, to be their best selves. This is emergency behavior. This is how people behave when their city is bombed or flooded or burning down, this extra care, this extra presentness, this best self connecting with other best selves. Then, online, an actual pastor I knew reminded me that the word comfort means to fortify (com- as in with; fort as in fortress, fortitude, and fortify), maybe to fortify with kindness.  We were fortifying each other with what we had to offer, which was ourselves, by really being with each other.  

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/this-is-really-hard-but-we-are-not-quitting-reflections-on-kindness-and-resoluteness/

Spring!

February 28

Plan ahead and this will be easy to do and make a statement that we who are “woke” spend money until we choose not to do so.

Posted by Jon Stewart:

“The 24 hour Economic Blackout”

As our first initial act, we turn it off. 

For one day we show them who really holds the power.

WHEN:

Friday February 28th from 12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M.

WHAT NOT TO DO:

Do not make any purchases

Do not shop online, or in-store

No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy

Nowhere!

Do not spend money on:

Fast Food

Gas

Major Retailers

Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary 

(Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies)

If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.

SPREAD THE MESSAGE

Talk about it, post about it, and document your actions that day!

WHY THIS MATTERS!

~ Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line.

~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.

~ If they don’t listen (they won’t) we make the next blackout longer (We will)

This is our first action.

This is how we make history. 

February 28th

The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins.

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From one day to the next. Yesterday the branches were bare and now today, flowers
Strutting our stuff
Doubling the impact when we form an arrow of intention with our refection!