Here for this, Ben - I think it's the inability to abide in uncertainty and tolerate fear that we activate our worst behavior and instincts. Thanks for this, Ben
If only brazen kindness could prevail over all the brazen cruelty. I'm still rooting for good to win the day. I hope, for your health and preservation, my friend, that you do spend some mornings NOT scrolling. The good stories are happening all around us, too ... They're just not as easy to find inside the machine. Take care. 💜
Here here Ben. The heaviness is pervasive. We are all fractals of one another, so hard to understand how anyone could think otherwise. Leaning into your poem makes me believe someday, our togetherness will be the only truth we’ll never deny.
Ben, one thing I love about everything I've read of yours - fiction and non-fiction - is that kindness and compassion undergird all of it. Thanks for that, and may those who've forgotten or discarded those qualities remember them again.
Great post, Ben. I keep looking for the flickers of light in all the darkness. I'm reminded of "The Fourth Turning" and how the authors suggest we are in the winter, the climax of another human historical cycle. I agree with you, I hope we can all make it through to a better place without too much damage.
Amen to all of this, my friend. It's exhausting, and there being no end in sight (that I can make out, anyway) just adds to it... And, while I hate that you're feeling it, too, it helps a little to know that there's many of us feeling similarly confused by the insistence on the binaries...
Yes, I hear you. I feel like I have been shutting myself away because I just can’t listen to it all. When I am helping others through my healing work or attending a beautiful sound healing event, it all dissipates as the richness of divine connection flows in. We have chosen to be in this time of transformation and it’s a rough ride. But we got this.
Howdy Ben, It was good to see that a prolific writer and creative mind like yours felt the drag coefficient of too many words on our own desire to continue with that spark of awe and fresh thoughts to share through writing. I did not publish much last week because I could feel the collective shutting down of my readers, plus millions of others. You captured the symptoms and some solutions, with clarity and precision, in your article today.
Hi Georgia, thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words. These are difficult times to keep the pilot light on. Take good care of yourself and the ones you love.
"But I don’t think it’s too much for us to learn to accept each other— to accept that we all exist in this pitcher together."
I'm 100% with you, Ben.
I feel the hurt from the news each and every day and constantly ask myself why? Why is it not possible for humanity to be better and do better and be kinder.
Here for this, Ben - I think it's the inability to abide in uncertainty and tolerate fear that we activate our worst behavior and instincts. Thanks for this, Ben
Thanks, Troy.
If only brazen kindness could prevail over all the brazen cruelty. I'm still rooting for good to win the day. I hope, for your health and preservation, my friend, that you do spend some mornings NOT scrolling. The good stories are happening all around us, too ... They're just not as easy to find inside the machine. Take care. 💜
Thank you, Meg. I appreciate that.
Here here Ben. The heaviness is pervasive. We are all fractals of one another, so hard to understand how anyone could think otherwise. Leaning into your poem makes me believe someday, our togetherness will be the only truth we’ll never deny.
Thank you, Kimberly.
Ben, one thing I love about everything I've read of yours - fiction and non-fiction - is that kindness and compassion undergird all of it. Thanks for that, and may those who've forgotten or discarded those qualities remember them again.
Thanks, Stephanie. I’m glad the kindness manages to come through in my writing. The older I get, the more that matters more than anything else.
Great post, Ben. I keep looking for the flickers of light in all the darkness. I'm reminded of "The Fourth Turning" and how the authors suggest we are in the winter, the climax of another human historical cycle. I agree with you, I hope we can all make it through to a better place without too much damage.
Thanks, Tom. It’s good to hear from you. I do need to read that book. I still remember our conversation about it.
Amen to all of this, my friend. It's exhausting, and there being no end in sight (that I can make out, anyway) just adds to it... And, while I hate that you're feeling it, too, it helps a little to know that there's many of us feeling similarly confused by the insistence on the binaries...
Thank you, Chloe. It does help to know that we’re not alone in this struggle.
Yes, I hear you. I feel like I have been shutting myself away because I just can’t listen to it all. When I am helping others through my healing work or attending a beautiful sound healing event, it all dissipates as the richness of divine connection flows in. We have chosen to be in this time of transformation and it’s a rough ride. But we got this.
Thank you, Jacky.
Howdy Ben, It was good to see that a prolific writer and creative mind like yours felt the drag coefficient of too many words on our own desire to continue with that spark of awe and fresh thoughts to share through writing. I did not publish much last week because I could feel the collective shutting down of my readers, plus millions of others. You captured the symptoms and some solutions, with clarity and precision, in your article today.
Hi Georgia, thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words. These are difficult times to keep the pilot light on. Take good care of yourself and the ones you love.
"But I don’t think it’s too much for us to learn to accept each other— to accept that we all exist in this pitcher together."
I'm 100% with you, Ben.
I feel the hurt from the news each and every day and constantly ask myself why? Why is it not possible for humanity to be better and do better and be kinder.
Gorgeous! Like Troy, so here for this!
“Forces together and pulled apart by forces we understand as much as water understands the pitcher that holds it”
Ben, I will take this metaphor with me. Thank you.
"But I don’t think it’s too much for us to learn to accept each other— to accept that we all exist in this pitcher together."
Me neither Ben, me neither... 🙏🏼
I'm standing with you, Ben. We are together.