Beloved friends, known and unknown
A few words.
Allow your feelings, swirling and difficult, to surface, each with its nugget of insight, and then, watch as they pass through and dissolve.
Notice then, as I did, that we are not cowering before armed men marching on our state houses and court rooms. Our troubled country held a complex and peaceful election yesterday - a result of meticulous preparation and implementation by tens of thousands of citizens, many volunteers. The predicted chaos and violence did not happen. Our institutions held. We have given each other a powerful Civics course.
We have discovered we are no longer isolated voices in a noisy world, but members of a vast community. We are finding each other and learning how to work together in new ways, to build a country we would wish for our children and grandchildren.
Stay grounded. Find calm within yourself. As best you can, be kind.
It's hard to let go of unfulfilled hope and find immediate balance.
I have three weeks until Thanksgiving to meditate on grief and gratitude to try to glean some lessons from this election. By then, hopefully, I’ll feel grounded and balanced enough to face the civic challenges that lie ahead.
Thank you Penny.