Watching the country unravel under chaos puppets and knowing so much is up in the air so taking deep breaths, staying vigilant, and ready to step up if I see something going down. I know what to say and what my rights are and the rights of others- papers for me & kiddo are in order (though I do need to make copies). I’ve frozen my credit & opening a bank account with no connection to other companies or IRS. Building community and finding ways to be joyful.
As I watch what’s happening though, hearing about more folks in hospital for flu, avian flu decimating flocks, immigrant workers refusing to go to work for fear of ICE, and recently learning that prisoners are regularly allowed to fight fires in California for barely any wage. All these together send me to predictions. Our population will get hit with another pandemic soon- it may spread past our shores. Labor will get harder to fill for low wage jobs. The prison pipeline will become a larger economic boon to the government and their private contractors cronies. Soon immigrants will either be sent home or put in labor camps and victimless crimes will be prosecuted more harshly to provide able bodies for jobs from farming to firefighting. For the systems that hold power in this country, empathy has had its hands bound and voice gagged. The company store just gained an exponential boost.
Everything has a wave- a high and a low- good & bad- toward & back. We’ve just lived through a high spot in history- improved quality of life, equality, and a move in the right direction towards equity. It wasn’t the best, but it was high for the history of this nation. Now that we’ve had the high there is a low that must be survived and that part of the timeline has begun, but we can fight it from tipping too far down. We must see each other & within communities we must look out for others, pick up those falling behind. We can watch out for others and build longer tables. Come together in love and acceptance – embrace those who simply want to live their lives. Love has always been and will now continue to be the greatest resistance.
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