Someone said write through this.
Agent Orange is traumatic. And now this virus.
We've been through Ronald Regan and HIV. This though seems next level. How did we get through the other hurricane? We formed community, we railed against, we took very good care of ourselves. So much good came out of that work. This can be an opportunity for deeper introspection, decluttering, getting close to the people who mean the most to us, mental hygeine, reading books, writing them, blogging again, eating better since I make meals at home for me and David.
Our neighbors upstairs put up the Italian flag. The neighbors across the street put up a sign -- "Are you Italian?" Massimo and Fabiana must have responded, "We are. Are you?" We love them so much. Their families are in Rome, and they've been scared for their loved ones for weeks now. Fabiana is beside herself and we try to console her in our building from time to time.
The folks across the street wrote a sign -- "No. But stay strong."
Let's all do that.
I spent some time watching the It Gets Better videos last night. Moving stuff. My favorite is the singing from the Chicago Gay Men's Chorus. It's wild how song works. The world needs all our talents. I'm good at storytelling. I'm good at helping humans align their being with their doing. To get really good at what I do, I constantly have to get better at aligning my own being with my doing. It's hard work. I think our careers help us focus on our deepest wounding as human beings, and as we get better, we develop power in that very area where we're broken. We get stronger than most other humans around that and we can GIVE that strength to others to help them along on the human journey. And that's our career. I think firemen saw some hopeless stuff growing up and are COMPELLED to run into burning buildings to do the impossible task of saving someone from fire. Nurses run TO broken bones and tend to them. I run to broken souls: I see someone struggling wi...
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