Thank you for writing through your pain, family pain and the pain of our country and our world. I am glad you quoted Heraclitus and I think he thought of laws as not only the laws like our Constitution and laws enacted by Congress but also deeper common laws of how we treat others and how we treat the natural world.
Ah, your phrase "writing through" - thank you, Chris. Solace somehow. Heraclitus writes through (or we read through) his flux, fire, and strife to higher, unifying common laws. Agreed! Another fragment like that: "The sun doesn't overstep its measures."
As usual, I love your writing. This part really resonated with me: "What’s missed is that weakness remains even after repair and patched frailties. The immaterial aspect of the breach can’t be fixed by reinforcement of physical structures and their freshly invigorated defense. The breach extends through time, through the principles upholding our laws, through memory and dangerous knowledge of exposed weakness - historic tear in the history and concept of our nation." You put this so well. After listening to the news the past few days, it strikes me that we all deeply know the vulnerabilities made so clear last year, but we don't know what to do about it. We want to stand strong and not back down and hell, even fight. The knowledge of deep vulnerabilities provokes fear of what's to come, and I find myself asking along with so many others, what will change this trajectory? Well, to be fair, we don't actually know what trajectory we're on as a nation, but we also shouldn't ignore the writing on the wall. The only thing I can think that would be effective is to stay engaged in all the noise without letting it draw me in. Acknowledge and do nothing that comes from a place of fear-filled responsiveness. For me, keeping a certain level of silence present within myself, gives me space to turn again and again to loving actions even when my soft underbelly is completely exposed. Thanks for the space to think about these things. It's helpful.
Thank you for reading and staying with that space. It's the only way I know how to keep balanced and moving - through and forward. Believing, hoping that attentive, loving actions affect the trajectory, resonating outward from their start.
Thank you for writing through your pain, family pain and the pain of our country and our world. I am glad you quoted Heraclitus and I think he thought of laws as not only the laws like our Constitution and laws enacted by Congress but also deeper common laws of how we treat others and how we treat the natural world.
Ah, your phrase "writing through" - thank you, Chris. Solace somehow. Heraclitus writes through (or we read through) his flux, fire, and strife to higher, unifying common laws. Agreed! Another fragment like that: "The sun doesn't overstep its measures."
As usual, I love your writing. This part really resonated with me: "What’s missed is that weakness remains even after repair and patched frailties. The immaterial aspect of the breach can’t be fixed by reinforcement of physical structures and their freshly invigorated defense. The breach extends through time, through the principles upholding our laws, through memory and dangerous knowledge of exposed weakness - historic tear in the history and concept of our nation." You put this so well. After listening to the news the past few days, it strikes me that we all deeply know the vulnerabilities made so clear last year, but we don't know what to do about it. We want to stand strong and not back down and hell, even fight. The knowledge of deep vulnerabilities provokes fear of what's to come, and I find myself asking along with so many others, what will change this trajectory? Well, to be fair, we don't actually know what trajectory we're on as a nation, but we also shouldn't ignore the writing on the wall. The only thing I can think that would be effective is to stay engaged in all the noise without letting it draw me in. Acknowledge and do nothing that comes from a place of fear-filled responsiveness. For me, keeping a certain level of silence present within myself, gives me space to turn again and again to loving actions even when my soft underbelly is completely exposed. Thanks for the space to think about these things. It's helpful.
Thank you for reading and staying with that space. It's the only way I know how to keep balanced and moving - through and forward. Believing, hoping that attentive, loving actions affect the trajectory, resonating outward from their start.