How To Retain Your Humanity During Dark Times
The world is admittedly a tire fire right now.
(big hugs)
Terrible people are doing and supporting terrible things.
It is dang easy to become less caring, less generous, less…human.
But being kind, generous, caring is what makes us amazing. Acts of kindnesses make life worth living.
And it is what makes us…us.
We need to hold onto this part of us.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I challenge each other to make at least one other person’s or one other creature’s life better every dang day.
This could be as easy as picking up a piece of trash. Or holding the door open for someone. Or buying a 99 cent can of corn and putting it in the food bank donation box. Or leaving a previously loved book in the Little Free Library. Or putting a container of water out for the birds on a hot day.
We do this and we feel…human again.
We feel that the world is a little kinder because WE made it a little kinder.
And we realize or hope we’re not alone in this.
Hold onto your humanity, my friends.
(big hugs)
It makes you you.
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Obeying In Advance
When I share that I’ve put my newsletter on hold or I’ve paused the publishing of my stories, someone always responds that I shouldn’t ‘obey in advance.’
Obeying in advance means we shouldn’t anticipate what the fascists will want and give them that thing or act before they order us to do that.
And yes, pausing my newsletter or pausing the publishing of my stories is what the fascists SAY they want. They say they want to eliminate what they view as profane materials.
But what they TRULY want is to PUNISH some of the people consuming those profane materials. They’ll do that by putting together lists.
(Fascists are always big on ‘enemy’ lists.)
Where will they get some of those lists?
From newsletter providers and from booksellers.
I copied my newsletter subscriber information and have deleted everything at the newsletter provider in November, well before power was transferred in the US.
I stopped publishing in November, well before power was transferred in the US.
Based solely upon my activities, my US reading buddies will look like they are complying with the wishes of the new fascist administration. They shouldn’t be placed in danger or put on any enemy list.
IMHO, that is the exact OPPOSITE of obeying in advance. It is anticipating actions in advance and protecting people from those actions.
(My stories are still listed at some booksellers because I have reading buddies throughout the world, not merely in the US. And yes, many international readers still use Amazon.com. That was once the ONLY Amazon site.)
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