My goodness, you are cultivating quite a body of resources and recourses that keep movement happening through the grief and paralysis. Thank you for sharing so thoughtfully and with such generosity.
One of the joys of being your neighbor and a neighbor where we live is the proximity to eldership, to life’s gathered wisdom, and to mentoring from one generation to the next. And while you and I will both be quick to point out that being an elder doesn’t automatically grant one faultless perfection, unending benevolence, and inexhaustible patience, there’s something that’s been missing in our wider world that we are piecing together. How to move through terror, mourning, and depression while guarding the fledgling hope in being human is one project I’m heartened to be working with you on. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your generous response. I agree! Neighboring is a powerhouse gift of cohousing. SOOOOOO glad we are in IT! I am glad for the interplay of it all---and for remaining quite faithfully and predictably hu-woman.
Reading this felt grounding and orienting in my body. Thank you for naming the time we are in so clearly. What pains us in not the whole of us. Such a good reminder. Looking forward to checking out many of this subs ❤️
With a Jeiwsh InterPlaymate today I felt the impact in her body. Body to body! We took three deep breaths in a small group just to honor and co-regulate in sympathy and love.
Thank you for this, particularly for point me to Ori Hana Weisberg. I follow many of these and I look forward to checking out the others. I too will lift up in particular Heather Cox Richardson as a beacon for me for the last several years to help make sense of our national situation here in the US and Diana Butler Bass for her clarity on a variety of topics including religion. It has been important for me to manage what information I am taking into my body very differently than I did for 9/11. Like you, I feel it is important to limit my news sources and exposure, while trying to keep my heart open and my eyes clear. I wouldn't say it makes it easier, nothing makes witnessing to and processing something of this magnitude and horror easier, but it does feel less toxic. I am very aware that allowing myself to be inundated and overwhelmed with the horror and toxicity is one of the goals of terrorists, and I am cussed enough to refuse to engage on their terms. Even with what infomation I do take in, it is still a lot to carry. Ori Weisberg writes about the need to speak to God directly, as Job dis, in the face of disaster and I'm doing a lot of that, getting it out of my body and giving it to God. Divine exformation.
Extremely helpful resources I’d been wanting to help make sense of the chaos of life. I already rely on Diana Butler Bass and Robert Reich. Ty!
My goodness, you are cultivating quite a body of resources and recourses that keep movement happening through the grief and paralysis. Thank you for sharing so thoughtfully and with such generosity.
One of the joys of being your neighbor and a neighbor where we live is the proximity to eldership, to life’s gathered wisdom, and to mentoring from one generation to the next. And while you and I will both be quick to point out that being an elder doesn’t automatically grant one faultless perfection, unending benevolence, and inexhaustible patience, there’s something that’s been missing in our wider world that we are piecing together. How to move through terror, mourning, and depression while guarding the fledgling hope in being human is one project I’m heartened to be working with you on. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your generous response. I agree! Neighboring is a powerhouse gift of cohousing. SOOOOOO glad we are in IT! I am glad for the interplay of it all---and for remaining quite faithfully and predictably hu-woman.
Reading this felt grounding and orienting in my body. Thank you for naming the time we are in so clearly. What pains us in not the whole of us. Such a good reminder. Looking forward to checking out many of this subs ❤️
With a Jeiwsh InterPlaymate today I felt the impact in her body. Body to body! We took three deep breaths in a small group just to honor and co-regulate in sympathy and love.
Thank you for this, particularly for point me to Ori Hana Weisberg. I follow many of these and I look forward to checking out the others. I too will lift up in particular Heather Cox Richardson as a beacon for me for the last several years to help make sense of our national situation here in the US and Diana Butler Bass for her clarity on a variety of topics including religion. It has been important for me to manage what information I am taking into my body very differently than I did for 9/11. Like you, I feel it is important to limit my news sources and exposure, while trying to keep my heart open and my eyes clear. I wouldn't say it makes it easier, nothing makes witnessing to and processing something of this magnitude and horror easier, but it does feel less toxic. I am very aware that allowing myself to be inundated and overwhelmed with the horror and toxicity is one of the goals of terrorists, and I am cussed enough to refuse to engage on their terms. Even with what infomation I do take in, it is still a lot to carry. Ori Weisberg writes about the need to speak to God directly, as Job dis, in the face of disaster and I'm doing a lot of that, getting it out of my body and giving it to God. Divine exformation.
Thank you Chris. I'm grieved to hear that an InterPlay leader lost her grandson in the violence. I anguish with my Jewish friends, all in the region, and their loved ones. Since I wrote this I put in the article a video sent from Oded Adomi Leshem who is in Israel that offers some direct reporting. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J1T-u3dVrJOfhqrzz6KlI0XHx_QK1XCD/view?usp=sharing. I also really appreciate the Center for Countering Digital Hate on How to navigate online disinformation and propaganda and practice information resilience https://counterhate.com/blog/how-to-navigate-online-disinformation-and-propaganda-and-practicing-information-resilience/
Thank you, more good sources. My heart breaks again . . .
Thank you. Thank you! So very helpful, and I felt a sense of hope.