Hope

 Hi, everyone (or anyone who might be reading this blog),

 After quite some time, I am able to start posting again. It’s been an interesting and sometimes scary interlude, to say the least, between the last post and today’s.

Let’s start with how Covid-19 has pretty much turned the world upside down even more than it was when the pandemic hit in late 2019 and early 2020, lasting through 2021 and still going on (the mutated variants) with intermittent spikes in 2022-23).

There are more wars (how is that even possible), the cost of living is beyond exorbitant (as if it wasn’t already before Covid), lack of affordable housing and regular healthcare are slowly (or not so slowly) trying to finish what the pandemic started, and climate crises happening all over the world are literally earth shattering.

Billionaires are competing to build spaceships to evacuate to Mars (abandoning the rest of us, nice guys that they are) instead of using their resources to create a better world here on Earth now and in the future. Megalomaniacs in governments and private corporations are frantically trying to maintain their power structures, destroying everything decent in their wake.

So why do I believe there’s hope for humankind? Because:

1) people are still helping each other, no matter what country, culture, or creed

2) I see love being stronger than hate, especially when challenged by hateful rhetoric or actions against it

3) today’s youth are not buying into the narrative of corporate culture that supports the destruction of the planet 

So while everything seems to be going to hell in a hand basket, there’s still hope and hope brings courage, strength, and resilience to outweigh outlast and outrun all the negative forces that threaten our planet and our lives today. When all is lost…there’s still hope. You just have to drill down to your core and find it.

Here’s to everyone’s health and happiness.

Cheers,

Mimi

I’m Still Here

 Well, it’s been a wild ride these past years what with Covid, lockdown, etc., etc. 

And here we are again, just before Thanksgiving, with the world going crazy, hellbent on destroying everything and trying to drag us all back 5,000 + years into an even darker, worse age than the first Dark Age. 

I re-read my post from Thanksgiving in 2019 and found that in spite of all the raging, out of control, events happening around the world right now, that post is still relevant, still my perspective, and, even more important, necessary to put into action, the goodness and caring for those who are in need, be it a kind word, a bottle of water, food, whatever one can contribute towards the wellbeing of others irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. 

There are many reasons to want to turn a blind eye towards the misery and suffering that is happening daily; it’s overwhelming to say the least, deeply discouraging, and seemingly hopeless at the worst, but the truth is one person at a time, who is taking action by helping others in distress, can turn the tide of hateful actions. There will be those who no matter what goodness is shown to them will still choose the dark side; but their days are truly numbered. Hope, despite all the attempts to destroy it, still prevails. So we must stand with hope, loving despite the darkest hatred, helping where and when we can, being brave enough and strong enough to walk away when necessary, but also fight with courage when necessary. 

So it comes down to the ability to discern, to identify which action is our best choice, and then take it. Everyone has a choice, but especially those of us who are not without food, water, clothing, and shelter, to help those who are so desperately less fortunate and for us to do so with true compassion and caring every day. Therein do we show our gratitude for the blessings we are enjoying every day this Thanksgiving holiday.

Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season.

Cheers,

Mimi

P.S. my next post will have some details about the past years since my last post…