Ready, Set, Go!!!

Well, we’re off and running into a new agricultural growing season. As of November 2 we have elected our president. In the not too distant future we will have new Supreme Court justices. In considering just these two momentous details I am aware that we will be framing our present and our future. Just recently I was talking with my Psychology students about the power of language to influence our thinking. I was talking about how language influences our thinking and how our thinking influences our language, and I was telling them it’s a feedback loop, a continuous circle of influence. I was talking about the power of how we frame simple questions, not to mention the power of how we frame important emotion-based questions. Then today, I just read a quote by Arianna Huffington in the current issue of The Progressive, a magazine I greatly enjoy. Arianna is asking us, “ever wonder how the radical right has been able to convince average Americans to repeatedly vote against their own interests? It’s the framing, stupid.” What this means is that when questions are framed in a way that constantly invokes fear instead of compassion and logic we make decisions based on emotion instead of logic and we make decisions that go against common sense, common decency, and the highest and best outcome for all. To say the very least that’s not only nonproductive, it’s meanspirited and harmful.

In this contemplative season as we move into the dark time of the year when the Sun’s light wanes in the sky, and our precious Mother Earth sends Her roots deep down into Her soil to prepare for the new growing season to come, I will continue to frame my life and my questions like I have always done, in optimism, in compassion, in a deep love and faith that these values always outweigh the heavy cloud of guilt and fear. I frame my life in the 70s mantra of Gloria Steinem when she proclaimed that the “personal is political and the political is personal.” Indeed it is, and in deed it is! So it is! As we all continue to work together in a spirit of cooperation, respect, equality, and reverence for life in all its forms and nationalities we will bring back into manifestation the very spirit of peace and prosperity that is present in the here and now in the unseen world of what our feelings and thoughts and words and actions bring forth into being. Hail, to this precious world of love and peace and understanding that is the very Spirit of our unflagging faith and love in ourselves and each other!!! Blessings to all of us as we continue our work, sending our roots deep down into our hearts and minds, the very precious ground of our being!!!

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