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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 8, 2024, at 09:41, Nancy Lanphear via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Dear friends<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div>My daughter in law Nina sent this piece to me after the election. I find I comforting, illuminating, and wise.</div><div><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">From Susan Smit, Dutch author and columnist. </span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 39.4px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">“In the journey toward a better world, some destruction is necessary. For a long time, I believed democracy was the ultimate achievement of civilization. But democracy, as we see at home and abroad, cannot save itself or bring about the profound changes needed to solve the great challenges of our time. Trump and other demagogues and autocrats have risen in the vacuum of disappointment with how the world is structured. They serve their own interests, yet unintentionally play a role in essential systemic changes: they accelerate the breakdown of the old order.</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 39.4px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">The creation of a new world, one where we as human beings live in harmony with all other living things, is already happening on an intangible level. You can help build it by nurturing your light, staying connected to the source, and caring for all life around you. By keeping your heart radically open, despite the world’s madness and harshness, for those who need care. By distinguishing what is pure and choosing it over and over. Do not seek refuge in detachment, denial, or escape; instead, attach yourself deeply to this life, this earth, this body, and the purpose of your soul. Embrace your circle of influence.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 39.4px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">On a tangible level, there will first be even greater chaos. It will become a circus, but you don’t have to buy a ticket. Look deeper, look further, stay calm, and focus on what is taking shape: ancient, feminine values seeking to return to restore balance. You are being called to rise, deeply rooted and attuned, to shine more brightly than you have ever dared. Take the hands of your sisters and brothers, and place yourself in the circle. Accept the tasks you set for yourself. Take your place.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 39.4px;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Let what wants to die, die. Be a midwife for what wants to be born. And let the circus be what it is.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: ".SF UI"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular";">Sent with love ❤️ Nancy</span></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br>OE@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>