I really appreciate the honesty and depth of your post. So much of what you wrote resonates with the questions I’ve been sitting with too, especially how to stay grounded in love and clarity while facing such intense and disorienting times.
Your call to widen the lens and imagine something truly new, beyond the surface noise and entrenched systems, feels like the kind of shift we need. I also love that you’re creating space for conversation, not just commentary. There’s something powerful about gathering people around questions that matter.
Thanks for inviting us into that process. I’m looking forward to following along and contributing where I can.
I am so glad to have you here, Christy. I was fantasizing this morning about my comment sections becoming the "committee" I keep looking for, to engage about where we are and what to do. As I keep looking for those special people who see with eyes like mine, my thoughts went to my subscribers, who stay even when they don’t participate, so there must be receptivity to what isn’t going on elsewhere. As I said this post, so many of my subscribers got on when it was a newsletter with no comments allowed, and it is so confusing even to people who post in the Substack system about how all the possible engagements work, that fingers crossed the new followers, who are familiar with Substack, would get conversation going.
This morning I took that to an extreme in my thinking, where this could be the hotbed for that conversation that isn’t to be found anywhere else. There’s not much argument about how endangered we are, and we don’t lack for visions of the world we’d like to be in, but how wonderful it would be if this was that missing conversation about getting from where we are to where we could be in timely fashion, not in a specially invited super-group, but among my up-to-speed subscribers. Your post would be a perfect one for that.
Sue is a great elevator. Not just of ideas, but of spirit. Her work nudges people upward—toward wider perspectives, deeper questions, and more courageous forms of love in action.
“Now What?” isn’t just a Substack—it’s a signal fire. A call to reflection and reinvention at a moment when the clock is running down and the stakes couldn’t be higher. I may not agree with everything Sue writes, but I never come away unchanged. And that, in these days of noise and nihilism, is a rare and vital thing.
Give it a read. Then sit with the question she’s asking. Then ask it of someone else. We don’t get out of this mess without people like her.
Too bad there’s a world out there or we could splash around in a love bath together. Much appreciation for what encourages my brash self for being on a good track. Now, what is it you are disagreeing with?
He was so clear what he said about love. I don’t think there is a better feeling than being in love. It’s the best version of ourselves. Imagine what the world we would feel like, if you’re always in love, you only want to see beautiful things. What an amazing way to view the world just the beauty and love. I think also it’s because it comes from the external position, the love you feel, becomes part of you, you internalize it, and carry it with you. If we came from a place of love, I feel that many of our “issues” would not be issues anymore.
I'm thinking of a spoonful of sugar sort of strategic love. It's not the "being in love" we all wish for, but choosing to come from love when that isn't the natural feeling. And your conclusions are mine. Trump is such an example of the diametric opposite, where he feeds on power-over, and it wouldn't even occur to him to change that -- unless someone sipped him a psychedelic, as I wrote about a couple of weeks ago: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/report-from-the-future
I really appreciate the honesty and depth of your post. So much of what you wrote resonates with the questions I’ve been sitting with too, especially how to stay grounded in love and clarity while facing such intense and disorienting times.
Your call to widen the lens and imagine something truly new, beyond the surface noise and entrenched systems, feels like the kind of shift we need. I also love that you’re creating space for conversation, not just commentary. There’s something powerful about gathering people around questions that matter.
Thanks for inviting us into that process. I’m looking forward to following along and contributing where I can.
I am so glad to have you here, Christy. I was fantasizing this morning about my comment sections becoming the "committee" I keep looking for, to engage about where we are and what to do. As I keep looking for those special people who see with eyes like mine, my thoughts went to my subscribers, who stay even when they don’t participate, so there must be receptivity to what isn’t going on elsewhere. As I said this post, so many of my subscribers got on when it was a newsletter with no comments allowed, and it is so confusing even to people who post in the Substack system about how all the possible engagements work, that fingers crossed the new followers, who are familiar with Substack, would get conversation going.
This morning I took that to an extreme in my thinking, where this could be the hotbed for that conversation that isn’t to be found anywhere else. There’s not much argument about how endangered we are, and we don’t lack for visions of the world we’d like to be in, but how wonderful it would be if this was that missing conversation about getting from where we are to where we could be in timely fashion, not in a specially invited super-group, but among my up-to-speed subscribers. Your post would be a perfect one for that.
Sue is a great elevator. Not just of ideas, but of spirit. Her work nudges people upward—toward wider perspectives, deeper questions, and more courageous forms of love in action.
“Now What?” isn’t just a Substack—it’s a signal fire. A call to reflection and reinvention at a moment when the clock is running down and the stakes couldn’t be higher. I may not agree with everything Sue writes, but I never come away unchanged. And that, in these days of noise and nihilism, is a rare and vital thing.
Give it a read. Then sit with the question she’s asking. Then ask it of someone else. We don’t get out of this mess without people like her.
Too bad there’s a world out there or we could splash around in a love bath together. Much appreciation for what encourages my brash self for being on a good track. Now, what is it you are disagreeing with?
Haha.
Wow, great find, love Raj's speech. Thanks for sharing Suzanne
He was so clear what he said about love. I don’t think there is a better feeling than being in love. It’s the best version of ourselves. Imagine what the world we would feel like, if you’re always in love, you only want to see beautiful things. What an amazing way to view the world just the beauty and love. I think also it’s because it comes from the external position, the love you feel, becomes part of you, you internalize it, and carry it with you. If we came from a place of love, I feel that many of our “issues” would not be issues anymore.
I'm thinking of a spoonful of sugar sort of strategic love. It's not the "being in love" we all wish for, but choosing to come from love when that isn't the natural feeling. And your conclusions are mine. Trump is such an example of the diametric opposite, where he feeds on power-over, and it wouldn't even occur to him to change that -- unless someone sipped him a psychedelic, as I wrote about a couple of weeks ago: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/report-from-the-future