While all of us are trying to figure out what tomorrow will bring, I gaze out of my window and see the sunshine warming the earth and illuminating the plants with light. I hear the birds chattering and bickering around the feeder as they begin the mating dance and the nest-building work. Everyday there are new buds and blossoms and shoots swelling before my eyes as they respond to the message of the season: grow. Where is our spontaneous response to life?
We have been so completely captured by our schedules and our meetings and our formats, we have lost track of our magic.
Now that the driving mindless surge of commerce has ground to a halt, we feel rudderless, lost, terrified. We need not disappear in a morass of fear. We need only to find our heartbeats again.
Many things will change. Many things must change. Yes, we need intelligent leadership and well-informed action, but the way to get the ship moving smoothly is to have each oar working its individual labor as one. Shooting arrows at the laggards will not right the boat. Teaching will. We have an amazing amount of data out there. We have the time to inform ourselves as never before, and not rely on the spontaneous ill-advised blatherings of frightened people. As Obi Wan Kenobi said, "Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?".
Getting ourselves in a mental space to receive science-based truth is critical. Wading through the headlines embellished with provocative "optics" to get to the facts should not accompany one's search for information and direction.
We have an exciting opportunity to relate to the world in a wholly different way. Mother Nature has pushed the reset button. How expediently can we realign our priorities to insure a harmonious future with Her?
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