2010

A couple of days ago, I was listening to NPR on my way to the grocery store. I hardly ever listen to the news. It has become part of my mission in life to avoid negativity, and hearing about war, terrorism, poverty, and other miscellaneous hardship is just too depressing.

But I was listening for long enough to hear that some people would like to name this past decade The Big Zero. My goodness. How depressing. I couldn't help but think that it sounds so whiny, so sad, so self-centered in some way. The Great Depression almost sounds noble. People had a very hard time, but were able to pull out of it, learn, move forward. Can we do that? Do we have to call the first decade of 2000 the Big Zero? Did absolutely nothing good happen for the world?

My daughter was born in 2000 and all of my children were born during the past decade. May their Light and the Light of all of these children bring us a better next ten years. Let us start right now dreaming and hoping and *planning* for something better. Let us raise these beautiful little spirits to love the planet, love their bodies, love each other regardless of race, religion, politics...

Can we do it?





I have hope. We have to believe in ourselves and in the possibility of what the World could be like if we all worked on it together. We have to stop supporting industries that put other people in horrible situations. We have to love the Earth in every way and work on the healing of our planet. We have to accept others, stop having fear about people who are different from us, embrace even those who do not embrace us. We have to give love freely especially to children. These children are the ones who will make a difference. Can we make the world a better place for them?



Yesterday afternoon, Clover made four tiny walnut shell boats, and on the paper sails she wrote these words: PEACE, COURAGE, PATIENCE, LOVE. May it be so.....