WANTED for 2024

If not now, when?

Looking ahead to the new year, and doing some evaluating of the old one…

First of all, dear hearts, thinking about why you would read what I write, comments are invited for what you would add to what I came up with:

To look forward. To get wild ideas. To deepen understanding. To be where you belong. To be inspired by possibility. To be allies in a great work.

This Substack started in February, after the departure of my assistant who worked with technology to execute what we created and who I relied on like a partner. Her concentrating on a master’s degree left me calibrating what to do without her. Suspending the things we were doing, like my podcast, gave me a chance to rethink. As I was loose in the change-the-world universe, I got emboldened discovering the position I’m in. Of all English-speaking people posting the internet, no one else is devoted to the urgency of shifting our paradigm. As odd as that sounds, don’t think I think I am anyone except a nobody, but I am one who knows that nobodies can be major changemakers. Look at 15 Ordinary People Who Changed History and These young women might just save the planet.

It’s optional to post comments about these ‘Want Ads,’ but for sure hit reply to send your response to them directly to me:

Something new to sign up for is Family Forwards, internet finds I send to my household now. I turn them onto things I’ll be happy to turn others onto. They will be special things like the videos I have on YouTube as Thought Shapers making sense of these times, and like these latest finds: Lock Him Away and Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian.

Seven people for a Circle of Trust – something I advocate that I’d like for myself, where we’d meet regularly on Zoom to hear and to help each other

Guest slots for me on podcasts that people listen to

A social networker team member to hire

A Substack expert to hire to help me get engaged with this rich community

For the year ahead, in my biggest picture I’ll deal with getting The Universe Story adopted as humanity’s creation story. I’ll have an animation soon, done to Brian Swimme talking about the new story that will help people understand it. If we had a sense of ourselves as the awesome product of 13.8 billion years of evolution, privileged to have gone beyond just operating on instinct, it would be a different world from where we try to conquer each other. Greed-based people act to serve themselves, but, if we appreciate ourselves as the extraordinary development we are, we will care about each other. Surely the time is ripe, as injustice has made the world unworkable enough to threaten our survival, to get beyond that. It even could be that one brilliant idea catches the right wind and we are off on the next leg of human beingness to realize the capacity we have for bringing about the cooperative world we need to become.

Start our new year’s journey with a bang by taking a ride with k.d. lang on a road I’d like to meet you on in 2024.

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