clams

Hi Maggie,

You have a typo - clam instead of calm.  And I loved it.  You said you have a clam surface, and I saw your family as smooth and integrated appearing, but slammed very shut, unable to really open. It fit with your comments about lying rather than facing the truth.  Very poetic...

The youngest may accuse you of being crazy, because you stop to consider it, stop to defend yourself. The pressure is off him and on you.

The world will continue, but our species is in danger of becoming extinct.  We are blindly following and allowing the 1% to lead us into extinction. What I can't figure out is if the leaders are blind and have no idea they will kill themselves also, or if there is a survival plan that doesn't include the sheep.

Over and over, though, I read about passive, nonviolent resistance making the difference.  We simply have to refuse to obey.

We don't have to buy everything they offer - even if the neighbor has it.  We don't have to accept their patriarchical authority.  We can choose to be adults, not their children.  We can take responsibility for ourselves, our loved ones, our communities.  We can say no to their education and their demands on our lifestyle.

If we're not too tired...if we're not too stressed...if we're not too broke or broken...

So what you are saying is that we have to be cancer, think like cancer in order to survive.  They problem I feel is that cancer is much like capitalism.  It is based on the flawed notion that we have inexhaustible resources.  Our species is functioning much like cancer now...which may create a kill or be killed situation.

What we need is a Light and Loving cancer intelligence...an intelligence that adapts and survives while coexisting with rather than swallowing the host alive...

Or so it seems.

Maybe when we are sheep, we are dark, devouring cancer.  When we are humane we can become a Light and Loving cancer...

Love and hugs,

Clare