I would answer everywhere! I am someone who immediately cares for everyone - and have to set boundaries because that can be really taken advantage of as I have found out. I think it starts with those right next to us and those whose paths cross ours, but caring is also a larger and sometimes political entity. There is no end to all the ways we can care!
This poem, like so many of the other posts in this dive says that we need to "create" peace. To say "We" and know who we mean, means we have had to make connections and communicate with other than ourselves. It means activism. It means engaging the third chakra. It means creating or manifesting into the world. Just a thought this morning...
It starts when you care to act!
And where does the caring start? ❤️
I would answer everywhere! I am someone who immediately cares for everyone - and have to set boundaries because that can be really taken advantage of as I have found out. I think it starts with those right next to us and those whose paths cross ours, but caring is also a larger and sometimes political entity. There is no end to all the ways we can care!
Being "someone who immediately cares for everyone," is self-care a challenge?
It is. I'm fortunate to have a husband who makes me aware that I am not watching out for myself when things are not healthy for me.
Bless your husband!
He is a true blessing and I am grateful for him every day! I will tell him for you 😊
This poem, like so many of the other posts in this dive says that we need to "create" peace. To say "We" and know who we mean, means we have had to make connections and communicate with other than ourselves. It means activism. It means engaging the third chakra. It means creating or manifesting into the world. Just a thought this morning...
The expansive WE! And for me, our "activism" has to be grounded in that—something infinitely deeper than ourselves. Otherwise, we burn out . . .
Though this a serious poem, I, as a serious pie lover,
chuckled out loud at:
“With six you can…
eat pie for dinner with no seconds…”
Truth!
A serious poem.
A serious poem about power.
A serious poem about power in numbers.
Not always true, I think.
Too many examples in history show otherwise.
“…it starts when you care to act,”
I like to think it starts when you care.
True caring will lead to action.
“…it starts when you say We
and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.”
Maybe when you say We
and mean not necessarily one more, but
know that we are one.
Valarie Kaur says, “Love is the only thing I have ever seen to create lasting change.”
(from:
http://www.dailygood.org/story/1527/a-call-to-revolutionary-love-emily-enders-odom/)
Then, of course, there’s Jimmy Hendrix:
When the Power of Love
overcomes the love of power,
the world will know Peace.
Amen. ☮️
You have a knack for distillation, which itself pries open my thinking and shines a light through the crack . . .