I came away from Wednesday's event really energized, it was just what this 
tired activist needed! As I walked around talking to people, I kept picturing 
something like "activist stew", where we are each ingredients with vast flavor 
profiles. As the stew is stirred, each ingredient mixes and matches with other 
ingredients, creating new and exciting flavors of possibility. We are each 
greater than the sum of the parts, making for a delicious evening! LOL! Thanks 
to all involved, it was a blessed event.

And speaking of stew..on the way home I heard my favorite deep ecologist Joanna 
Macy on the radio, and she eluded to stew as well. It was a rebroadcast of her 
talk at Bioneers last year, if you didn't hear it or want to re-listen, it is 
incredibly relevant to the struggles we each face. She talks about “The Gifts 
of Uncertainty” in this dark age, my favorite part from the talk is this:

"Thirdly, talking about the gifts of uncertainty, is the courage to feel, what 
you feel in the present moment. As you become present to your world then you 
feel what are are carrying. Usually if you are being rushed and hurried out of 
your minds, you don't bother paying attention, you try to pave it over, block 
it out, shut it down, turn away, turn it off. But try as we might, it comes up 
again. The grief, the outrage. The raw fear. What in god's name are we doing to 
our world and to each other? And you now are not going to fall for the ploy of 
the industrial growth society to pathologize that pain. You hear me? Don't let 
people, therapists or well meaning friends try to explain it away in terms of 
your personal biography or that time of month. It is a measure of your 
evolution, a measure of your humanity, it is a measure of your nobility that 
you have a heart-mind big enough to see and empathize with the outrage that is 
being inflicted on our world and
 on all our relations."

http://www.joannamacy.net/multimedia/81-video/212-bioneers-video.html

To see and empathize with the outrage that is being inflicted on our world, 
that is what is all about my friends!
In solidarity,
Eric


      
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