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Rae Delisle's avatar

Loved this.

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”

I could not agree more whole heartedly with every fiber of being. Such words deserve contemplation in everyone’s heart for that is the place of which we find true loving direction forward.

Sending an abundant amount of love your way. To you and yours.

With kindness,

Rae

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Tracy Aubuchon's avatar

Ro, it is such a pleasure to read and ponder your offerings. They are funny, insightful, helpful, humble and always thought- provoking. I give them so time to ping pong around my noggin before finding the words. But even that isn’t the end. After I have hit send,a treat. I read everyone’s comments. So beautifully written, beautifully lived. Thank you for your writing and bringing together this space.

I have been thinking about Now too. Even before the latest unjust death that has shook our souls, I had my own quake. A long time friend w stage 4 inoperable cancer. She was fine on Thursday and when I saw her next on Monday she was another being, terrified animal trapped in an extensional corner.

I have danced w death and I am here because of a saving throw. I knew I would probably die but I had hope. To see someone up close without it is unmooring, whether your friend or a stranger crying for his mother. As fate had it I was also reading Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng about children being taken as a form of political control. Taking away hope. Stealing the future, breaking connection.

For my friend Now had changed very little only the connection to the future. Yet everyone, not just her, was gut punched by the harsh truth. Thursday as we were talking about the weekend she was dying but so am I and you and every living thing. In that Now we were shaken awake and can see the truth, at least some of it.

After letting my soft animal recover from the blow, I was still left to reconcile that the universe that created my son’s smile also created cancer and broken men with guns. How can both things be true, how can I be happy when others have a boot to their throats?

I don’t have the answer. But no one does when they are doing something for the first time. Now is perpetually the first time. So I am leaning heavily on my practices and all my simple pleasures of Now.

That is not to say I am giving up on making this world a better place. I just refuse to barter my Now for a future that cannot exist.

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