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Sitting Still as a Super Power
This image speaks to how it feels right now, with the world crashing out of control and careening into the climate change disasters that are coming one after the other. The organized Hamas attacks on Jewish ravers at a music festival (along with other sites in the region) has brought international attention to the ticking time bomb that is (and seems to always have been) the Middle East.
Right now, my heart is with the whole mess of us right now, everywhere, as we experience the worst and (I’m certain) the private, unreported, heroic best of our humanity. We always learn about that part much later, if at all. But horror has our attention at the moment.
Opinions fly around at breakneck speed. I feel this sense of urgency to decide where I should plant my flag. Not the American one, but the Tina one. And yet, I don’t have any Jewish or Palestinian ancestors that I know of; and I’m woefully under-informed about history, culture, and the geopolitical engines influencing current events.
That said, I am a member of the human race, and a practicing Buddhist. As such, I know the power of taking a breath when things get this hot.
So I sit and breathe for a while.
