Getting Political While Remembering the Hopi Elders’ Prophecy on this Tuesday with Jo
How can I best serve my community?
Staying informed with what’s going on in the outside world of our peaceful life in the forest, our love bubble, our safe place, our sanctuary, brings up so much rage, fear, grief at what we are witnessing while the guardrails that are supposed to preserve our democracy are, in very large part, being stripped away, and quite intentional cruelty is running rampant in both our State legislative laws being passed, and the influx hourly of new trauma inflicted by the trump administration, without a cohesive plan by our Democratic Party to counter Project 2025. What is the plan? I thought I heard some of our candidates say during the election cycle that they had a plan!
Well it doesn’t feel like the Dems had a plan even though they knew Project 2025 has been around for decades now. So, we are on our own; but that doesn’t mean we are alone! What is unfolding for me is a beautiful tapestry that is weaving together of likeminded souls who want to create real actions to honor our past, while protecting our future in local community committees.
This week has been very much about the word “Community” for me, and is also becoming the mantra for my spirit to stay engaged, inspired and out of the despair. Some of my readers have heard me quote Joan Baez before, and it has become a guiding light for me in these times: “Action is the antidote to despair.”
I wrote about some of this in last week’s Tuesdays with Jo, and this week community building continues to give me hope, and let me know I am not a lone wolf, and I can DO SOMETHING that makes me feel engaged, empowered and also, if I’m being honest with myself, absolutely full of fear because I hope I’m not getting in over my head, and I pray I am up to the tasks I am engaging in. I’m now on five committees (although some of the committees are actually committees within the same group; so it sounds worse than it is.) Trust me, I am taking adequate time for self care, exercise and healthy boundaries (most of the time.) I am also blessed with an extremely supportive partner and he and I share much of the load and I absolutely adore him for doing the laundry and sharing cooking and KP duty with me, and giving me back rubs at night! I could go on and on because Mark deserves a helluva shout out. And I rarely mention him in my posts. We’ve been together for 31-1/2 yrs now, and we make a great team together!
So Saturday we had another major storm here, and just as we were preparing to host a community group at our place for a potluck text banking event, we lost our power. So text banking obviously didn’t happen with no WiFi to connect with. But a beautiful thing unfolded. Our group started strategizing about ways we, as a county political party, could best be of service to our community. Particularly with increasing tornado watches and weather events, and a most likely recession coming in the near future. This group of eight of us went through all types of possibilities and ways to help, and to grow our party so that we can get members activated and energized about helping the community find help during these challenging times. So this will be something we will be bringing up and working on with our upcoming party meetings.
Once our power came back on, everyone took a portion of our text banking list and the script home with them before the tornado warnings hit and we lost power again for a day and a half! Thankfully, we are all safe and well this time around!
On Monday, (St. Patrick’s Day), we had our monthly coffee gathering with some of the members from our TN Federation of Democratic Women. Some of our partners also attend. These are purely for social time outside of our regular meetings to just be there for one another, network, and vent about current events and ponder what we can do in the future with our organization. I love these women. They are so inspiring, fierce, determined, passionate, protective, supportive, creative, humorous and brilliant! I always leave these gatherings feeling uplifted and that we are all doing our best to make a difference in our communities and in our State of TN.
The message I am noticing that keeps coming up for me is the mantra I am going to hold onto: “How can I best serve this community?”
When things seem overwhelming and I feel insecure about being up to the task of making any significant difference, I just need to go back to this question and use it as my anchor. I pray that will be what helps me through all this, and gives me the strength and courage necessary to make a difference by keeping my efforts focused in on that. All the committees I am on now are all - in some way - serving at the Community level. That is the river I will be swimming into.
Here’s where I’ll reference Jo’s Poetic Peace Pilgrimage (PPP) piece and how much it resonated with me this week. In particular, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
~ Hopi Elders’ Prophecy, June 8, 2000 ~
Apologies for this one being a day late, as the day got away from me this Tuesday.
Finally, As a lover of environmental causes and protections, here’s a gentle reminder of some upcoming events to honor in whatever way you personally choose to acknowledge:
March 20 is Spring Equinox/Eostara.
March 21 is International Day of Forests.
March 22nd is World Water Day.
Please don't forget to bless them (I know some of you already do this on a daily basis and that is why I love you so dearly!) and join in any group consciousness activities you can to send your radiant light and healing energy and appreciation to Pachamama and our Mother Waters. Thank you. Mni Wiconi
Without further ado…take it away Jo!
Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 302 – 10/14/2022
Well come to another day of celebrating, imagining, being a cosmos of peace and harmony in this sacred moment of eternity, another wild and precious moment to acknowledge the astonishing light of our inter-being, a light shining so brightly in the core of our being, a light that has been shining since the beginning of beginning-less time, a light calling us to listen, listen, listen to the soul song singing our one body to come home to the heart, to the present moment, the only moment… this moment is the moment of eternity where a new and more expanded picture of reality emerges with revelations to weave and dots to connect on the spirit path, the beautyway we are all walking each other home…
So many shoulders, roots, mycelial networks supporting us, such a boundless circle, a communion, a common union, our one body perfectly created for these times… what follows is one of the thousand fold expressions of this living truth, the cosmic wisdom of the astonishing light of our inter-being that I have shared before and this moment of initiation, of separation, ordeal and return, calls out for this healing balm:
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We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
“You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
~ Hopi Elders’ Prophecy, June 8, 2000 ~
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Let us rise and descend simultaneously into the call for life, liberty and justice for all in our every thought, word and deed with every breath and step… and so it is… blessed being the astonishing light we are…
Let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with a blessing into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives…
May this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…
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