Hello, from the end of the world...

Whether our bodies can comprehend it or not the end of the world is at our door. I know that sounds a bit alarmist but be patient with me, we are watching a world die before our eyes. We are watching the old ways fall away and they are grasping for every last bit of power, killing as many witnesses as they can along the way. We’ve seen behind the curtain, they played themselves. They got so rich they actually forgot how it is to live outside their little bubble. They’ve lost their souls to greed. Empathy is the enemy. The facade is so incredibly thin. The world we want is within grasp.

Each day we go to work, we write the notes, we see the patients. We make future plans with friends or to get our teeth cleaned knowing that some great disaster could get close enough to end it all, but we put things on the calendar anyway. I think the question, the feeling, some of us are wrestling with is; what if it was true that from the foundation of our government all the way till right now the game has been rigged and the sins of our past have been repackaged and repurposed as necessary pillars of our society? Enslaving people and colonizing land is what we did, right? I distinctly remember a time I believed that it was our past- and yet here we are enslaving people and colonizing to gain resources in 2025.

There is a portion of our world, people who have encased themselves in comfort and gluttony, who are unaffected by this hell scape. I’m sorry, maybe it’s because I’ve been poor my whole life but I cannot imagine a world where I accept astronomical wealth, enough wealth to solve world problems, and I choose not to share it. That way of living is pure evil.

But then there’s us, me and you, sitting here though the agony. we just keep waking up each new day to a news cycle of hate and disaster, and the sun still shines. I’m not even being dramatic, it’s wild how much we are just chugging through right now. It’s actually crazy making to witness at any level and even more crazy making to try and make sense of. The foundation is unwell and we need a new system, but what do we do until then? It is so boring, we just live. We find joy in the things within reach. We reject the need, the want, and impulse to spend our money to someday achieve the same show of wealth the uber rich are parading around in now. There are enough of us who want good things, who know how to heal, who know how to live in community, we just need to start doing it with our full chest. I hope you do, I hope you live your days completely as yourself. I hope that every ounce of who you really are boils to the surface in this time or unrest, and I hope you carve out a place in our new home to be the most pure version of you. It is by showing up as ourselves, reflecting our little shimmer authentically that we move through this.