Your awesome, inspiring article is written in the same spirit and with the same truly revolutionary, heart-centered perspective I spoke from in a Zoom call today addressing the meta crisis, held in an online community I’m active in.
I felt called to share a powerful dream I had two years ago in which I was acting as an effective shepherd for others as we move through the Apocalypse. I was effective because I didn’t let fear or panic overwhelm me. I knew--and accepted, even appreciated--that we were going through a traumatic, tragic experience as a species, so I not only remained calm, I was cheerful. It wasn’t that I was denying reality, but that I was able to hold space for the sorrow and grief of this Moment while staying earnestly upbeat.
Someone on the call told me her son had been listening in and agreeing with everything I said and called me “cheerfully morbid.”
It’s funny, because I am a fan of The Grateful Dead and “cheerfully morbid” connects to the paradoxical nature of reality.
Last, THANK YOU for your personalized style, sharing how you are growing into using this app for your writing. Your openness about that process inspires me that it’s time I get to my “September Project” of re-starting my weekly blog posts but doing it over here on Substack. So I’ll close with a question: Do you have any advice based on your experience about using Substack? (I’ve been on Medium for 4 years and Wordpress for 8 before that).
Anyway, you REALLY are onto something with the human-loving and encouraging suggestions in this post! I could say more about why I believe, so long as a person isn’t faking it, this perspective and Spirit looks like a very successful path forward based on my understanding of studying astrology for the past few years, but I’ve written more than enough.
Bryan -- This slipped between cracks, and of all things to lose track of this comment wouldn't be it. I haven’t mastered getting my Comment world to where these are the sort of exchanges we’d be having, and this is so welcome as corroboration that I’m making sense. I’d thought we’d be dishing with each other in this real-talking way and I hope what you wrote will inspire follow-ups.
I don’t know about the mechanics of Substack since an assistant puts up my posts, but it's a rich world, evolving faster than I can keep up with. Whoever put art and commerce in the same universe was quite a trickster, and my arty self, that writes things, does not like to think about merchandising them. To get seen internally on Substack, where there’s lots of mutual support going on, is a project. More a full-time job. It's a universe of upper intelligence where the platform wants the best for its people and there are interactive sessions to wise people up, but they are for so many people that I get lost in those crowds. A lot of people come from Medium.
Start your Substack and we can be cheering for one another and helping one another. You sound more on my wavelength than anyone I’ve found who is writing here, and I get a good feeling that conspiring together we could get ourselves seen. Scouting around the Net feels like watching frogs get cooked, and I’d love to try to do something now about getting mobilized.
Hi Suzanne---First and foremost, I totally understand about things slipping through the cracks---it's one of the challenges of the world many of us live in, with so much information available 24/7, it takes a lot of skill to manage and prioritize.
Now, my overall comment is there's much about your reply here I resonate with and appreciate----I'm gonna track down that Fool who put art and commerce in the same world and ask him some tough questions, dang it! That dichotomy is a challenge that at 50 years old I've still not properly come to a healthy answer to.
However, I DO believe that one answer is to spend some of our time supporting others whose work we appreciate. I think everyone who has created any sort of content can relate to feeling like you've put your heart and soul into something (not to mention blood, sweat and tears!), only to get very little response---and how that can be discouraging. Thus, I've learned enough about my personality to know that not only do I have the skill set to encourage people in a real way, but doing so energizes me and that then feeds my courage.
Okay---hopefully reading this was nothing like the horrid experience of watching frogs get cooked (your imagery cracks me up here!), so yes, let's work harder on mobilizing with people.
And last---yes, my Substack blog is coming. In a rather protracted transition process it seems, so the timing is hard to say for sure, but I'm thinking once we get further into the darkness and cool of fall and early winter, I'll be really homed in on writing. Meanwhile, I'll keep reading your posts!
I really look forward to you writing here. I don't have any buddies on Substack, which is more a literary place than a revolutionary one, and I have a feeling in your getting active here we could work wonders.
By the by, I spend a lot of time engaging with Substack writers who are very political, commending their smarts and trying to inspire them to look for solutions rather than just dealing with how horribly humanity is behaving. Thom Hartmann even recommends me, although no dice yet on inspiring any creative thinking about what we could do.
Partnership is key. I'd love to share my work on regenerative leadership - actions that help the planet thrive. By working WITH the Earth, using her principles, we can actually make headway into a new way of living that is LIFE centric. Let's play! https://bridgetopartnership.com
Great to have you here. Your website is lovely plus being tuned in.
This brought a smile: "As an activist, are you beginning to doubt the effectiveness of marching and recycling?" And indeed the big question, "How can we learn to 'think like the planet?'"
I go around on the internet poking at people, looking for engagement. I trust that’s what got you here. Perfect. Hopefully we’re growing some acorns to get a forest. I’ve been laying out ideas ‘thinking like the planet.’ Different from anyone’s. Trying to get them into play.
With Regenerative Leadership being your territory, I did podcasts on that subject with Giles Hutchens and John Fullerton, who has done some other thinking with me: http://SUESpeakspodcast.com.
so love what Giles and John are saying. I’ve been caught in, what Giles calls the middle ground of ethics and values. I feel that we need to unwind ourselves from the dominant value SYSTEMS and embrace the “values” that nature practices , values/principles /patterns that ensures all life thrives. We say we need to listen to nature. We say we need to work with nature, but what does that mean? For me, through my research, it means living the same values nature lives.
That’s why these values work, but we have only seen them as separate ideas. It is only now, that we understand them as parts if a SYSTEM that the power of that A BD the consequences of that, have become clear.
For readers, this is a reply to what I posted yesterday that's out of order here. First sentence is fine but something wrong with your second sentence which isn't making sense???
The Universe Story has us as nature. An evolving universe is one entity that's always developing. What's current still has all the past in it, always being added to. So here we are, as nature, and now here we are as capitalism. Nature got bought. That helps me understand regeneration and to be as nature. It's not an order or command because it's good for us, even though it is, but it's a recognition that it always was us that we've paved over.
Consider me a fellow Cheerleader for Team Cosmos!
Your awesome, inspiring article is written in the same spirit and with the same truly revolutionary, heart-centered perspective I spoke from in a Zoom call today addressing the meta crisis, held in an online community I’m active in.
I felt called to share a powerful dream I had two years ago in which I was acting as an effective shepherd for others as we move through the Apocalypse. I was effective because I didn’t let fear or panic overwhelm me. I knew--and accepted, even appreciated--that we were going through a traumatic, tragic experience as a species, so I not only remained calm, I was cheerful. It wasn’t that I was denying reality, but that I was able to hold space for the sorrow and grief of this Moment while staying earnestly upbeat.
Someone on the call told me her son had been listening in and agreeing with everything I said and called me “cheerfully morbid.”
It’s funny, because I am a fan of The Grateful Dead and “cheerfully morbid” connects to the paradoxical nature of reality.
Last, THANK YOU for your personalized style, sharing how you are growing into using this app for your writing. Your openness about that process inspires me that it’s time I get to my “September Project” of re-starting my weekly blog posts but doing it over here on Substack. So I’ll close with a question: Do you have any advice based on your experience about using Substack? (I’ve been on Medium for 4 years and Wordpress for 8 before that).
Anyway, you REALLY are onto something with the human-loving and encouraging suggestions in this post! I could say more about why I believe, so long as a person isn’t faking it, this perspective and Spirit looks like a very successful path forward based on my understanding of studying astrology for the past few years, but I’ve written more than enough.
Just, please, KEEP WRITING!!
Bryan -- This slipped between cracks, and of all things to lose track of this comment wouldn't be it. I haven’t mastered getting my Comment world to where these are the sort of exchanges we’d be having, and this is so welcome as corroboration that I’m making sense. I’d thought we’d be dishing with each other in this real-talking way and I hope what you wrote will inspire follow-ups.
I don’t know about the mechanics of Substack since an assistant puts up my posts, but it's a rich world, evolving faster than I can keep up with. Whoever put art and commerce in the same universe was quite a trickster, and my arty self, that writes things, does not like to think about merchandising them. To get seen internally on Substack, where there’s lots of mutual support going on, is a project. More a full-time job. It's a universe of upper intelligence where the platform wants the best for its people and there are interactive sessions to wise people up, but they are for so many people that I get lost in those crowds. A lot of people come from Medium.
Start your Substack and we can be cheering for one another and helping one another. You sound more on my wavelength than anyone I’ve found who is writing here, and I get a good feeling that conspiring together we could get ourselves seen. Scouting around the Net feels like watching frogs get cooked, and I’d love to try to do something now about getting mobilized.
Hi Suzanne---First and foremost, I totally understand about things slipping through the cracks---it's one of the challenges of the world many of us live in, with so much information available 24/7, it takes a lot of skill to manage and prioritize.
Now, my overall comment is there's much about your reply here I resonate with and appreciate----I'm gonna track down that Fool who put art and commerce in the same world and ask him some tough questions, dang it! That dichotomy is a challenge that at 50 years old I've still not properly come to a healthy answer to.
However, I DO believe that one answer is to spend some of our time supporting others whose work we appreciate. I think everyone who has created any sort of content can relate to feeling like you've put your heart and soul into something (not to mention blood, sweat and tears!), only to get very little response---and how that can be discouraging. Thus, I've learned enough about my personality to know that not only do I have the skill set to encourage people in a real way, but doing so energizes me and that then feeds my courage.
Okay---hopefully reading this was nothing like the horrid experience of watching frogs get cooked (your imagery cracks me up here!), so yes, let's work harder on mobilizing with people.
And last---yes, my Substack blog is coming. In a rather protracted transition process it seems, so the timing is hard to say for sure, but I'm thinking once we get further into the darkness and cool of fall and early winter, I'll be really homed in on writing. Meanwhile, I'll keep reading your posts!
I really look forward to you writing here. I don't have any buddies on Substack, which is more a literary place than a revolutionary one, and I have a feeling in your getting active here we could work wonders.
By the by, I spend a lot of time engaging with Substack writers who are very political, commending their smarts and trying to inspire them to look for solutions rather than just dealing with how horribly humanity is behaving. Thom Hartmann even recommends me, although no dice yet on inspiring any creative thinking about what we could do.
Partnership is key. I'd love to share my work on regenerative leadership - actions that help the planet thrive. By working WITH the Earth, using her principles, we can actually make headway into a new way of living that is LIFE centric. Let's play! https://bridgetopartnership.com
Great to have you here. Your website is lovely plus being tuned in.
This brought a smile: "As an activist, are you beginning to doubt the effectiveness of marching and recycling?" And indeed the big question, "How can we learn to 'think like the planet?'"
I go around on the internet poking at people, looking for engagement. I trust that’s what got you here. Perfect. Hopefully we’re growing some acorns to get a forest. I’ve been laying out ideas ‘thinking like the planet.’ Different from anyone’s. Trying to get them into play.
With Regenerative Leadership being your territory, I did podcasts on that subject with Giles Hutchens and John Fullerton, who has done some other thinking with me: http://SUESpeakspodcast.com.
Look forward to all your thoughts...
so love what Giles and John are saying. I’ve been caught in, what Giles calls the middle ground of ethics and values. I feel that we need to unwind ourselves from the dominant value SYSTEMS and embrace the “values” that nature practices , values/principles /patterns that ensures all life thrives. We say we need to listen to nature. We say we need to work with nature, but what does that mean? For me, through my research, it means living the same values nature lives.
I love the new name. Go team Cosmos!
That’s why these values work, but we have only seen them as separate ideas. It is only now, that we understand them as parts if a SYSTEM that the power of that A BD the consequences of that, have become clear.
For readers, this is a reply to what I posted yesterday that's out of order here. First sentence is fine but something wrong with your second sentence which isn't making sense???
The Universe Story has us as nature. An evolving universe is one entity that's always developing. What's current still has all the past in it, always being added to. So here we are, as nature, and now here we are as capitalism. Nature got bought. That helps me understand regeneration and to be as nature. It's not an order or command because it's good for us, even though it is, but it's a recognition that it always was us that we've paved over.