Michael,
Decluttering and making money at the same time. Sounds like a retirement plan to me.
Great clip on how to have conversations. Celeste is a very personable speaker and I agree with her belief that every single person has something extraordinary about them.
On the need to speak up....the Native American video you posted....beautiful music by the way. How do I explain this? I’ll give you an example from a couple of days ago.
I was talking with some coworkers during a break about someone in their neighborhood having the doorbell ring at midnight. Guy they didn’t know was there with a shopping bag. They called the police who drove by. They never opened the door. My coworker made the comment that she used to not like guns in the house but was glad her husband had them now.
I was just plain sad. My personal past reached out. Being shot at by my neighbors jealous ex-husband when I was in the car with her and her new boyfriend. Sad that her same boyfriend ended up strangling him to death a few months later because he came after him again and one of them was going to die that night. Sad that he lost his business and his life because he had to move before the ex’s crew came to kill him.
Sad about the guy who shot himself three feet from our doorstep when we lived in DC because his girlfriend broke up with him.
Sad about how my ex BIL killed a woman with his shotgun.
Sad that we live in a world where people knock on your door at midnight to try and do a home invasion.
All those things exist though. So the waves of sadness passed over me. I didn’t feel the need to have a political debate. I just felt the emotion and went on to the next thing.
The next thing happened to be screening the next client who came in for food. She had her own sadness.
There is a lot of music about sadness. There always will be. Music embraces emotion.
Stereotypes, rather than embracing that each person has something extraordinary about them, are truly so much of the language of the internet now.
Seeing each person as a unique person was something I believed for decades was what being a liberal really was. Not embracing blanket stereotypes. Obviously I lost that belief along the way. I’ve had to own my personal hypocrisy for the decades I naively did the same while believing I was supporting individuality.
On that somber note, I will add in a couple of new videos I love. 💕
I have been reading a lot about miscommunication that we are all guilty of....maybe not you Jo ~ but most likely me. People have forgotten how to listen and get their feelings hurt for a misread text. 