this endless road

Happy Solstice my friends who are reading this. Today I participate in celebrating Solstice with Soleria and Santari Green who are posting from Glastonbury Tor in England, and fifty or so other people who are participating in the Global Alliance of Modern Day Alchemy’s event today.

I’m listening to a bird chirping outside my window in the neighbor’s tree that I can see the top of from over the wall, and a rooster is crowing in the distance. The air is alive with dancing molecules in a fine mist of impending rain.

I woke up thinking about China and Russia and what they will do to come to the aid of Iran. I don’t feel any angst about this war, though. It feels like a balancing and a reckoning.

I grieve the people who are dying on every side and in the war in Ukraine, too, but I am feeling the joy of living on this fine Solstice, of sleeping well, of enjoying the company of my cat, of drinking coffee and having clean floors throughout my house from sweeping and mopping, which I finished yesterday, a two-day operation. I want to move to a smaller house without so much upkeep.

How can grief and joy coexist? There’s an alchemy that purges and transforms emotions. It’s almost as though you must feel the grief and sorrow intensely first before it gets absorbed and washed away in the joy of life, of breathing, of existence, of our wonderful world.

When we are fully alive and feeling awe in the great presence of ourselves, we give meaning to the death and suffering, but we can also release and let it flow. There’s no dichotomy to our feelings, I am learning.

Our emotional energy field is more like a river. That’s the metaphor that has come into play in a major way for me in the past three months.

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Do you believe that humanity needs to protect our future?

Do you believe that all the children in the world are in our collective care?

Are you growing in wisdom with age?

All this ballyhoo about the solar eclipse acting as some kind of portal for humanity to expanded consciousness had me eager that finally we would get the needed push to evolve, end wars and enjoy peace. Well, I’m still waiting, keeping a nervous eye on developments in the Middle East, wishing and wanting, wanting and wishing for deep healing to take place and matters to settle down instead of being drawn into regional war.

Watching Ukraine, too, and witnessing ongoing baiting of Russia by NATO, as well as the Western world planning war with China. The old paradigm has not been shed like a snake sheds its skin. How many of us are moving into the new paradigm, the quantum world? Can we just change our story, and come out better, not only surviving but thriving? Humanity doesn’t seem to be evolving yet. We still have conflicts in the Middle East that could easily boil into war and embroil the world in nuclear warfare.

Turkey has stepped up to the plate with economic sanctions against Israel. That’s an important development. They won’t sell the Israelis a great many commodities until there’s a ceasefire in Gaza, the most important of which is jet rocket fuel. I understand the way to bring pressure against Israel to stop the genocide must be economically, as it disregards all diplomatic and legal efforts, votes in the UN General Assembly and even the Security Council. Worldwide censure has no impact.

The Houthis have understood from the outset that Israel must not be allowed to carry on business as usual, and they have intervened to stop global shipping in the Red Sea. Now Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have been pinpoint targeting the Ben Gurion Airport, the Ramat David airbase in occupied Haifa, oil refinieries in Haifa, the city of Ashod, the port of Eliat, which is virtually shut down.

Iran might not be taking any kind of grandiose countermeasure that would draw their forces into conflict with Israel, but it is backing resistance forces, Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, to attack Israel. Within the United States, Nancy Pelosi and 38 Democrats are calling for Biden to stop supplying Israel.

I watch and I wait, I pray and meditate. Humanity is at the tipping point — if we stay the course we’re on, we’ll annhilate ourselves in nuclear war at this rate very soon. Can we evolve, can I evolve? Can I break out of poverty and start making some real money? Can I get market savvy to sell my writing? Can I write for a market? Sometimes I get a maddening glimpse that it can happen. It’s like being

in a meditation when you go through a portal and find yourself in a vastly expanded field of pure energy. It’s almost as though an eye opens, but then it just blinks, and shuts again.

I’ve been a tree hugger for decades, although I must say I’ve learned to make sure the tree I hug is not teeming with ants. I did not know the history of tree huggers, though. So I’m sharing this. It’s important.

“>Trees and Palestinians

I just took part in a webinar December 29-30 to launch Ervin Laszlo and David Lorimer’s book, “The Great Upshift”. I am still integrating everything that was said in this interactive forum, but this idea of life is embodied network, of interbeing, was pervasive. I am still integrating all of this information, as it is taking me deeper into the paradigm shift.

I’m listening to an emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly. They voted for a humanitarian ceasefire because the Security Council failed to do so because the United States blocked it. The Arab Group, a newly formed group of Islamic countries, has been persistent in working through the United Nations to apply pressure on the United States and Israel to hold a second ceasefire.

So far, the United Nations has had mixed success in coming to the aid of Palestinians. The latest toll is over 15,000 people who have died since October 7, primarily women and children in indiscriminate bombing by the Israeli Defense Force. A ceasefire was put in place from November 24 to the 30th. Another humanitarian ceasefire is being pursued.

Pressure is being applied from the international community through the United Nations to stop the slaughter of Palestinians. Americans have also been protesting for a ceasefire. Yesterday peace activists lay down on the floor of the Senate building. Jewish activists, who also want a ceasefire, chained themselves to the fence at the White House.

middle-east un general-assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

I understand that we must engage our hearts as well as our minds to resolve this horrendous war. If we can unite in mourning for all of those who have died on both sides, perhaps we can move forward in spirit as well. I have been praying and meditating, watching what is happening carefully, and studying the history of the Israelis and Palestinians, educating myself.