Trump & Elon & Meditation & Protest.

Don’t ignore what’s happening. Find a way to show up and get involved before it’s too late. They want you to give up, ignore, be overwhelmed. Don’t be.

But, too, take care of your sweet self.

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There’s two contradictory things we have to do in this first year of Trump & Elon, lest we lose our sane economy, our real democracy, our health, our sanity, our freedom to protest and be ourselves.

Take care of your sweet self. And, do one Thing.

Yesterday, a group of masked proud cowardly Nazis waved guns and swastikas in Cincinnati, in a historically black neighborhood. Soon enough, they were surrounded, pushed out, their car tires slashed.

“The people in the neighborhood chased them out, took their disgusting flags and burned that shit! LET’S GO CINCINNATI!

F*c* yeah Cincinnati showing up with the correct energy. Let’s all match that”

“Things of that nature don’t stand here.” A rallying cry for our times!

“We are a community of pride and love.”

Pay attention.

And, take care of yourself.

Not just one of the two.

Now is the time when we may lose our democracy. They’re flooding the zone, a strategy to distract and overwhelm with 3 or 4 if not more major news items a day. They want you to look away, to fall into only caring about your day, and yourself. If it doesn’t matter to you that’s unexamined privilege.

The thing to do with privilege is to use it to benefit others.

But we must pay attention, lest we lose our actual freedoms, our democratic society, our stability, ethics, and morals nationally and statewide and locally. Stability and ethics are needed if you’d like to have value in your home, if you don’t want poison in your food, if you’d like access to good education not only for yours but for theirs. Like the measles vaccine, education only works if we all have it.

Gas prices up, egg prices up, measles outbreak in TX, farmers losing USAID business, Elon has your Social Security #, taxpayers paying millions for private flights for peaceful immigrants who were keeping our economy up…

So let’s all do something now. Start with one thing. Volunteer. Protest. Share. Read up. Find good, mature sources of journalism, not partisan hype.

But, too, take care of yourself. Stretch. Meditate. Hydrate. Go for a walk in nature. See community at your favorite local cafe or grocery.

We must do both. Avoid supporting any company that is supporting the gutting of our country.

Put what energy you have, what money you spend, what actions you take into healing and eco-responsible actions, local mom n’pop shops, civic goodness.

This is the moment. Not a year from now, when it may be well too late. They are testing the already weakened envelope of democratic norms now. They are overwhelming us now. They are seeking to steal, ravage, fire, pillage, promote racism and hate, now.

Push back. Hold the line. Push back. A proud peace must prevail, or millions and billions will suffer far more.