Where Are You on the Ride?
Enough with this fog of gloom! We will get through this yet! That’s the thought I woke up with this morning after several days of being in a funk. There’s apparently a term being tossed around for what many of us are going through emotionally as we watch our nation unraveling under the twin pressures of an abysmally-managed pandemic and a racial reckoning — Corona-coaster. Some days you’re up, raring to check off all the tasks on your list, and on others even folding the laundry piled up on the bed requires a gargantuan effort.
If it’s any indication of where I am on the ride, my laundry pile is currently three washes high. Time to press that reset button for sure!
So I spent some time this morning looking for things that offer hope and good cheer, and that speak of our collective resilience. Didn’t have to look too far. Found a bit of it in the first, ripe, red cherry tomatoes offered by a vine in my overgrown backyard. And a lot more in this happy-sad story about how time in nature can help neglected children heal. Then as if to fill the cup over, I found out about the 100-year-old British WWII veteran who raised oodles of money for health workers and cheered up so many by walking 100 laps of his garden on his walker.
I needed these stories and signs today to remind me, yet again, that while there’s so much going wrong with our world, there will always be much more that is right and beautiful. And that’s what makes it all worth keeping on for.
What is offering your soul sustenance during these difficult days? Do write in. I’d love to hear and be inspired as well.
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Editor, Earth Island Journal
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