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Pamela Shaw's avatar

I stopped reading/taking in the news from mainstream media (ie NYT, NPR, et al) ages ago and it was the best thing for me and my mental health. (I still am up to date on the happenings in the world.)

Weirdly, I'm comforted by Ken Wilber's post-truth post from 2017... https://integrallife.com/trump-post-truth-world/

We need to build new systems that truly benefit all.

And I see that us not checking in on each other is pretty much us being the poster-children of colonialism: "you're on your own, deal with it." I'm the friend who will randomly reach out to other friends via text/phone when I think of them. It's rare when that is reciprocated.

But we need community to thrive, and that is how movements are created and won. The focus needs to be on taking care of each other.

Lastly: we are all more alike than we realize.

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Joanna Powell Colbert's avatar

So funny I never thought of my reluctance to reach out to others as ancestral, or as a characteristic of whiteness. I thought it was my own Capricorn reserve and shyness. I thought I was giving people space, not bothering them, blah blah blah. The key person I did reach out to yesterday was my 16 year old granddaughter, who confessed to being scared. We had a rich and heartening text exchange. So I kind of feel like if that's all I got done yesterday, it was enough.

But I hear you, dear Sara. This is absolutely what will get us through ... staying connected to friends both far away and in our neighborhoods. I'm so glad you'll be writing here again. Love you.

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