Thank you for the words of encouragement in the comments yesterday... I didn't realize how much I needed to hear them until I heard them. I'll pass it on to At, but please know they really, really helped me too.
I was a bit downcast today--I blame the cloudy then rainy weather, the national and world news, dropping off excess from the campus gender-affirming closet at a donation center that took me past the homeless encampment, and watching Alien: Earth with Big A last night. Corporate greed and fuckery are everywhere and worries for my kids, kids in general, and the world kind of took over my brain.
I'm rereading Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and she gets right to the heart of it: “modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world’s wealthiest peoples. The shortage is due not to how much material wealth there actually is, but to the way in which it is exchanged or circulated. Grain may rot in the warehouse while hungry people starve because they cannot pay for it. The result is famine for some and diseases of excess for others.”
She fills my soul when she talks about how gratitude fosters abundance and how she taught her daughters to garden so "they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.” So I spent some time with the trees, grass, and plants when I got home to reset. There is so much to be grateful for... It's only a question of redistribution.
Pic: The Maple River on my way to work. It's what the kids and I used call our "deep breath of beauty."
https://www.pocobrat.net/2024/05/standing-in-beauty.html
https://www.pocobrat.net/2024/02/check-1-2.html
https://www.pocobrat.net/2020/01/sunrise-snip.html
https://www.pocobrat.net/2019/10/here-comes-sun.html
https://www.pocobrat.net/2021/11/maple-moment.html
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