Paul and I are sitting on our balcony listening to vintage Beatles songs on his computer. Yellow Submarine, Sargent Pepper, the silly stuff! And also the sweet stuff—Paul McCartney was all about sweet stuff. It’s reminding us of the times when we had lighter hearts. And even though the world was a hotbed of political upheaval back then, we were on the side that was bound and determined to change the world and we looked to our futures with hope and determination. Who expected the backlash to come this many years later? We knew there would be some, but neither of us expected it to be so intense and cruel.
Still back to this present moment on the balcony. This feels GOOD! Looking at the world with love and hope, imagining a better world and believing we could have it—what could be better? Things look harder to us now because the blitzkrieg has been almost nonstop for months. But lately I’ve been getting more than a few glimmers of unlikely people coming together with Democrats on the issue of freedom of speech (Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz, Karl Rove) and my determination to recapture my own inner strength and joy has returned.
Back in February I wrote about my Resolve and Determination flower essence formula as one I felt was important. To quote myself: “ I am not going to let this man (men) ruin my health, ruin my well-being, ruin my life!” I was and have been writing a lot about flower essences for coping with trauma, grief, anxiety, and hopelessness. All useful when you need them! But if you’re sick of feeling like a person being victimized, it’s time to shift the mindset. At the very least, that means taking your power back.
The reason I think my Resolve and Determination formula is a good bet is because re-changing the world could be a time-consuming process and that one was made with those thoughts in mind. World change was time-consuming the first time, and we didn’t finish! Plus, we didn’t take the pain of us demonizing old cultural mores seriously. We were too focused on our own pain about those mores. So there may be some things to learn.
And I just had very discouraging thoughts about this and before I could write them the Beatles started to sing:
“There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game. It’s easy! . . . All you need is love! All you need is love. All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.”
Lol. Here’s a link to my Open-Hearted Loving formula, too!
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