Lean your back against Mine
#SongsOfComfort
How are you really? Most people we ask simply shrug or flood us with words, trying to articulate the whole story. We are all trying to be strong. We are all doing what we can to take care of what we can-- body, mind, soul, beloveds. Omicron is here. Democracy is unraveling. How do we think ahead to next month, next year? Are all our plans about to vanish yet again? Is the state our minds were in eighteen months ago normal? It’s hard to know, but we do seem to have developed more muscle for it now than we did back then.
We can only walk through this world knowing that this is the era in which we are alive. These are our times. We can only lean on who and what is available now. We can only ask questions that will help us perceive this day as a gift, not a given. In this way, perhaps, we will discover a time of emergence in all the emergencies.
We want you to know how grateful we are that you have been the backs we have leaned on for so many years. Division is not, cannot be, the path to a viable future. May we learn together how to use the pain around us to connect to each other more deeply.