Listen.
The compound effects of COVID-19, racial brutality and unrest (this time) and the year-long constant shakedown/breakdown/shutdown /letdown has bludgeoned our souls. Multiple griefs and losses of dreams and loved ones have left us with a bleak and narrow view of the future. Yet we still ask Robert Frost’s question: “What to make of a diminished thing?”
The kinds of distress that we are facing is shaping our new normal, but only Americans are crying the blues in a eulogy to American exceptionalism: wahh, wahh, wahh...
Mask wearing? Welcome to Hong Kong.
Insurrection at the Capitol? Welcome to Venezuela.
Killing of innocent Black people? Welcome to.....ohh, that’s always been America. (Amerikka)
More than any other time in the Zeitgeist, it’s time to nurture yourselves and the people you love.
Create community to counter the isolation.
Craft new abilities to make new income sources.
Make your art. Tell your heart. Ship that package. Write that story.
Times of shaking are pregnant with opportunities for advancement. Why should it be someone else who advances? Bezos and Gates made money during the pandemic. Why not you?
Look up post traumatic growth. Find one good article, and make one action step toward growth. Do it tonight.
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