rights and responsibilities

I have become increasingly frustrated at the growing division in the world and particularly in this country. The people who think the gap between the rich and poor is caused by the poor who do not try hard enough. With people who hide behind corporations to funnel their money towards whatever will give them more power, without responsibility towards people or the planet. I worry that short term greed will destroy us all. I fear the growing distrust of logic and science. I see far too many parallels to times in the past of robber barons and great hardship.

I have been searching for what can give me hope through this time. I see those who have outrage at the executives who give themselves ridiculous bonuses while causing disaster and leaving thousands out of work. I see activism for rights and justice. And the more these times parallel those of the past, the more I remember that we humans survived those too.

return and connection

I am back, and yet, looking on the topics already covered, I haven't really gone too far. I logged in to collect some links to inspiring blogs. Then my husband found my old posts and was moved by all the gratitude. It encouraged me to go back and read what had been written. In so many ways I come back to the same topics in my life over and over.

I am now working on a first peace circle class. It is helping me to see connections across many of these topics and focus on the connections between myself and others. The link above is to a video that I was sent from another source, but seems to fit to the topic of the peace circle well. The last lines of the video strike me the most:

to let ourselves be seen

to love with our whole heart

to practice gratitude and joy

I am enough.

I am realizing that I have the urge to write these things down so that I may be reminded of them when I need them in the future.