If, In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act,* then perhaps being hopeful and grateful in a time of democide is a miraculous one.
Here’s to miracles.
A lot of the food I stored in the basement for the “upcoming” financial disruption is past its sell-by date.
I know the “Preppers” saying: Better to be 5 years too early than 5 minutes too late.
Still, it’s a drag to see food go to waste. I am not good at rotating stuff; I tend to avoid the basement - its part of a house that’s over 160 years old - and I don’t want to go down there.
(Here’s tip: if you’re not going to be on top of rotating food, then buy the bins of freeze dried stuff designed to last a life-time and be done with it.)
Waste aside, it’s good news, right? We don’t actually want to need our disaster-stash.
I’m prepared for dire outcomes, was ahead of the curve in that respect, but what I’ve learned is this: There’s a fine line between being prepared for crises VS waiting for one.
Like everything it’s about proportion.
The “doom” industry is like any other industry - it’s got its pockets of agenda; it’s personalities that are credible and those that are not; its pitfalls and its positives.
So much of the crises we’re living in is happening in a way and at a pace that many people still don’t notice. (Though I think that’s beginning to change now.)
There’s also a fine line between watching the collapse and getting sucked into it; between focusing on what’s wrong VS preparing ones mindset to navigate potential problems.
And here’s a good-news reminder - for everything we know, there’s more that we don’t know.
Which to me is hopeful, because there must be both good and nefarious actions that go on behind the scenes. Not just nefarious. And when you’re understandably focused on the nefarious, you can easily miss the positive.
There must be fractions breaking out and in-fighting going on among the TPTWB. We don’t know the outcome to any of this, because it’s all in process and there are more variables than we could consider.
Including us and the rate at which we catch on. We’re the biggest variable of all.
And as with any time of crises - there are and will continue to be opportunities. Here I’m not speaking of financial opportunities - though there will be those. I’m thinking of creative endeavors and what humans who see the trends might come up with to ameliorate them.
How they might come together and create new things, by simply going around the globalist agenda.
I watch young people - my children included - who struggle with being in this world. Not necessarily that they are depressed, or unable to adapt to the changes, but rather they struggle with where to put the energy required into building a life in a world that is coming down.
How does one get a foot-hold in an avalanche?
And, i’s not just the financial system, it’s everything.
Education, cultural norms and values, system-wide structures, our identity as citizens, all of it is in upheaval.
As a young person today, you know - even if just in your gut - you won’t be raising kids in the world you inhabited. Your kids won’t be going to school in the version of school you knew. (Which was bad enough!)
You probably don’t want your young or future children anywhere near a public school where they may well be jabbed without your consent and most definitely will be indoctrinated away from you.
So, who will educate them? What will that look like?
Where will you work? Will there be a financial system everyone agrees on? Or will the parallel realities we experience now also include parallel financial systems going forward?
Should you be a tradesmen who can fix something in exchange for something else?
Should you find like-minded others and create your own carved out community?
Start a business? Live in the woods?
What will that world look like? What should you prepare for?
These things are not yet clear.
Obviously acting as if the world is going to continue as it has in the past is a bad strategy and yet I see some young people do that too. In many ways they seem better suited to the world we have right now - but that will quickly change. Are they ready for the world that’s coming?
I remind myself that in the same way I’m certain I belong here for this time, this is true for everyone. And just as I had my “snapping out of it” process, so will they.
For those of us who are watching, connecting the dots and looking for the truth, we might want to consider that while we are not victims in the sense of being unable to help ourselves, we are all victims in the sense of having been traumatized by the world we were born into and the crimes we’ve witnessed.
(I don’t like the words traumatized and victim - and certainly I don’t like them associated to me - but it is still true. And these things effect my perception.)
What we’ve been witnessing has been traumatic. As a mere few examples depict:
Death protocols in hospitals - the very places associated with life saving. Big bucks in exchange for dead bodies.
It happened. Is happening.
A poison administered into many of our fellow humans, along with the predictable, subsequent rise in deaths and disability.
It happened. Is happening.
A media in full compliance with the death-cult controllers.
Happened, happening.
Stolen elections in so called democracies on full display.
Higher Education Institutions demanding students show proof of self-harming, reproductive-threatening jab-compliance to attend.
Phony wars killing real people to serve a tyrannical agenda, while being supported by gaslit citizens.
A large percentage of our populace clueless to all the above.
Happened, happening.
How does a decent human digest such outrageousness?
I. Don’t. Know.
But I do know it impacts us. Real consequences flow from it, some we can see and some we can’t.
In the midst of such unthinkable wreckage, we get ready for Thanksgiving. (Let’s not actually look too closely at its history) Which I welcome, if not for cooking the same meal I cook every year (my oldest is a traditionalist in that sense) but for the opportunity to be together as a family and simply share a meal.
I am grateful for family. For food. For being together.
Even in the midst of a dystopian-novel-come-to-life, life, we still must live ours. And we can reflect on the good things, be grateful for them, as we move forward into our uncertain future.
Gratitude happens too.
I’m becoming increasingly aware of the power of choice. Personal choice in my daily life. Each day, no actually each moment. A choice continually beckons if we are alert to it.
How to spend time today? Right now?
How much shall I give to checking in on this show VS other places I could direct that attention?
What’s the right proportion? We each have our own answer.
It’s not as if we don’t still get gorgeous sun-rises and amazing nite skies. Or beautiful lighting that changes as the day progresses and delights in surprising ways. Or really good novels to disappear in or an excellent glass of wine. All that continues; all that deserves our attention too.
Nature, the landscape we are a part of and live within, goes on. And nature, nurtures us.
Nature adds. Even in the midst of a world that is continually deducting; deducting resources, accurate information, income, human-values, and basic freedoms.
While the world in collapse is taking much away, nature, continues to offer us more.
There’s something to pay attention to in that simple calculation.
*This quote has been largely attributed to Orwell, but turns out that was bad information, (shocker!) as this article corrects. Highly ironic.
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Well said, Kathleen. I'm right there with you, trying to figure out DAILY where my energy is best directed. So hard to know. When I stay true to my spiritual practices, I can trust that all of this, ALL of this, is for our awakening. But it ain't easy, and I get knocked off my game a lot.
Knowing that there are others out there helps me so much. Thanks for being one of them.
"...get a foothold in an avalanche." Excellent, visual analogy, Kathleen.