How is it possible for us to live if we do not believe we know who we are? Perhaps today what you feel is that you are giving away too much and do not want to answer any more questions. Perhaps you believe that if you were cut the blood would no longer gush from you but seep, and after a little seeping, dry and heal, or not.

You have only one chance at death, and in that aspect, are not unique. Perhaps this is the connectedness you and I seek. PLEASE keep talking to others about what is real. Wendi

All the geopolitical and economic house of cards globally are on shakey ground, even if, as per usual environmental reality is not really being taken on board. Add the rest of physical reality collapse to the mix, and those feeling apocalypic are very much on to it!

My friend Kevin Moore calls it “Peak Mayhem” and now Richard Heinberg’s new book is “Peak Everything”…!!

Love that last line:
“We have got to get it together now”

Bring it on, bring on the revolution!

Regards
Ted

I too have times when I feel allergic to being out in the mainstream “everything is fine” world. I fear for my friends and colleagues who don’t get it, but also don’t want to know. Those are the times I get back into the natural world, even if it is my own backyard with my critters and tomatoes. I watch my banana tree grow a new leaf. They are huge and green and come out like a flag that is slowly unfurled. Natures flag waving like the fin of a whale turning in the water. Time of no drama, just in the moment.

I do mourn. I did not expect this kind of future for my children. I fear going into old age without a way to take care of myself.

But I do believe there is a higher order to things, and whatever happens, I hold onto that faith. Across the world there are millions of people who have had it, who have lost their faith in the world they live in, but want to create another. Can we? My only comfort is knowing that some of us will find other like minded people and live soul to soul with what is left on earth.

I’m exploring this week just how I have mistaken my comfort for safety. Even though I feel I live a simple life I am still cossetted in comfort, hot, on demand showers, organic food, a lovely, albeit small home. This week I’m heading off into the wilderness for 5 days. I’m looking forward to seeing how I do without all the comfort. I figure I need the practice, so I can really appreciate and be grateful for what I have now but also so I can learn to become more resourceful and aware of what life will be like when it’s gone.

I too feel saddened on the one hand by my children’s future, it’s not how I imagined but I remind myself that what is coming will be real not an illusion and I think that will at the end of the day be more precious even if the comforts are gone.

I loved the part of your bananna leaves unfurling oh that we might all slow down enough to watch miracles such as that which are still all around us in the midst of Empire chaos.
Vivienne, Ladner, B.C.

Oh, and give Todd my best.

However, we do know for a fact that the emperor has no clothes, and that his empire is ultimately doomed. As more people speak the truth that they know, still more acknowledge that truth. And we know that the situation is dire and urgent regardless of when the rubble will begin to pummel us directly, for we are already beginning to endure the consequences of overshoot and the externalized costs of living in empire.

So, my answer to the precautionary questions
above is that it’s about freakin’ time more of us started sensing that urgency, that “something in the air”. Urgency certainly arouses me out of complacency, heightens my awareness of the present, and awakens me to my feelings. That shared perception doesn’t have to mean that a “huge shift” is coming any sooner (though it might!), but it certainly seems to be an indication that individual awakenings create some sort of synergy. We may be the instigators. Now what do we do with that?

Jill

Purrr,
MP