{"id":20890,"date":"2015-07-25T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2015-07-25T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T12:59:39","slug":"20890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=20890","title":{"rendered":"Surrender to Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night my nephew and his family were over because they are visiting from Atlanta. Yes, I was across the counter from a man that I knew as a baby all grown up now with a child around half the age of my son. Well that’s a history in and of itself. <\/p>\n

Yet, that’s not what is on my mind. The world has grown so heavy, so violent, and frightening and well, I feel that it is coiling tighter on itself from one catastrophe after another and there is no place for all this grief to go. It can’t sit on your spirit because you won’t be able to breathe. It can’t be held in abeyance because you might forget about it and not do anything to heal it. <\/p>\n

We have to practice self care, which means pausing in that interstitial between beauty and horror. Filling the spaces with silence, art, nature and love. This is not a call to stare unblinkingly at paintings in a museum or sit contemplating under a moss laden oak tree, it is a reminder that if we accept the unrelenting pummeling of senseless violence in this country as who we are, what we are, and where we are going, we will all perish.<\/p>\n

Hope dies last. <\/p>\n

The struggle is getting harder, the pain is intensifying, and it can push us further forward. All change comes with pain. We are moving out of one cycle and into another. <\/p>\n

How many innocent people must die before we register a problem – we might be at our limit right now. <\/p>\n

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