How do I NOT appease a despot who persecutes the vulnerable? How do I NOT comply with a misaligned flow? How do I help to realign a distorted flow of hate to one of love, respect, and compassion for all life? I search my soul and ask these questions. I look to the many heroes who inspire me with their large hearts and stalwart courage. Like Miep Gies and her co-workers who risked their lives to protect Anne Frank and her family. Like the many WW II resistance workers throughout Europe who put their lives on the line to trump hate with love. Would I be so brave? I know that the suffering and injustice out there in the collective is part of me, part of my inner consciousness. I'm feeling that life is going to get a whole lot harder out there on the streets. When I'm out of my comfortable armchair and down there in the muddy trenches, all I can do is face my fears, find the light beyond my own darkness, and do what feels right no matter what the consequences. Give my whole heart. Help realign the flow to a higher world.

Father: “You have to carry the fire."
Son: "I don't know how to."
Father: "Yes, you do."
Son: "Is the fire real? The fire?"
Father: "Yes it is."
Son: "Where is it? I don't know where it is."
Father: "Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.”
~Cormac McCarthy, The Road

x Cathy