Claiming Our Power-O Thank you Canada

Claiming Our Power-O Thank you Canada

No doubt USA will hurt financially by Canada's courage to seek new alignments but...WE/the WORLD WHO CARES, is GAINING a template for moving forward with newfound integrity, based in shared values and sustainability worth far more than the status quo. Integrity that is ESSENTIAL to life continuing on this earth. Thank you O Canada/Prime Minister for speaking truth to power that wants to keep us powerfess...and taking action per your POWER of INTEGRITY. Invaluable for all of us who are also "middle powers" daring to make a shift.

Defying AND Embracing GRAVITY

Elphaba, the so-called "wicked witch" of the movie Wicked, Part One, dares to follow her own integrity, her own SELF, rather than compromise her values, her talent, her personhood. Even though it means leaping into the unknown. "Something has changed within me," she sings. When have each of us dared to change our understanding of something, of ourselves, when our integrity is at stake?

Declaration of INTERDEPENDENCE 2025

Exerpts and commentary of the Declaration of Independence were uppermost in many social media posts the week of July 4, understandably. What kept firing in me is how imperative it is—actually it is incumbent upon us as citizens of USA, to reflect on what the words in that document mean, if/how they serve the common good--that is, serve ALL of us including earth, air, water, all creation—and what more could those words mean or what other words might further us in our cause of viable shared life? Let's talk Resources: Heather Cox Richardson podcast Adam Kinzinger on BlueSky app Born With a Bang by Jennifer Morgan; illustrated by Dana Lynne Andersen

Resist and Unite: an "Easter" and every day reflection

Friday: commemoration of 250 years since start of American Revolution; Saturday: No King Day of Action; Sunday: it's Easter... This podcast includes sharing an excerpt from Heather Cox-Richarsdson's incredible reflections at Boston's Old North Church on April 19, 2025.

Wicked - Part One: Deception NO MORE!

Waking up to deception is gut wrenching. It can also be activating. That's what the current Wicked Move Part One did for me. Activation that's now unstoppable in catapulting me to speak up, stand up, even louder than the day before.