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!