The FPN Blog is back up and running after a glorious week off at the beach. Every evening on this little sojourn, a bit before sunset, I would go down to the water’s edge and stand with my feet rooted in the sand, and simply be in still connection with the sun, water, air and land that surrounded me. But after awhile, I realized that to actually keep my feet rooted and connected involved something of a constant re-balancing as the sand shifted beneath my toes as the the tide came in and then went back out again.
At The Water's Edge
And that I think is a good description of what is necessary in the work that needs to be done. I have been blogging/writing with few breaks since 2001. I am tired, disheartened and burnt out. I look around me and realize that a tremendous amount of our time is spent on insane things.
Watching Rep. Sessions tell Judge Sotomayor that they were going to do that ‘crack cocaine thing’, Patriarchal wingnuts threatening to vote against health insurance legislation if it allows abortion, car dealers that give away AK-47′s with the purchase of a new car. The lady I spoke with at the company that insures my son’s cell phone after it was stolen who told me that we couldn’t go outside the ‘matrix’ in obtaining a replacement. No wonder we are burnt out.
As I walked the shore, I learned that the local sea lion population is under stress and no one knows exactly why. How could we know why when our energies go to staying within the matrix and not getting shot by some idiot who just got a brand new AK-47. It is all connected. But more importantly, we are all connected. And even when the sand rather literally shifts beneath us, we are connected to the universe and we need to keep re-balancing and re-connecting. Our lives depend on it.
Yoni Tidepool
In addition to taking a break, I have also been working on some website upgrades. Most aren’t visible but will hopefully lead to a lot less spam-related crashes. I am still mucking around trying to understand some of the new administrative features (as you can see despite all the proper code to center the pictures, they aren’t centered…), so bear with me if glitches occur. I have added some more blog links and did a bit of streamlining and removing of outdated material. If you see any problems, do please let me know.
Also, we have a brand new Facebook page, the old one is significantly messed up and will be removed as soon as the new one is repopulated, so if you want to follow FPN on Facebook, click here.
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