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Thank you for this! I needed this reminder today. I keep thinking about the Buddhist story in my kids Stillwater book where the farmer has good things and bad things happening to him and each time the villagers say either "what good luck!" or "what bad luck!" and the farmer always responds "Maybe." When I first read it deep in the pandemic, it became my pandemic mantra - accepting that good luck and bad luck are all mixed up. We don't know how different events will unspool and interact with other events. This is not to say that I do not recognize that we are living through such intense, scary times. It is just to say that we don't really understand, despite our best intellectual efforts, how all of this will play out over the long arc of history.

We need to be clear about our values and what we want the world to look like, to take action toward both and also not get caught in rage or despair or anything else that will burn us right up. We need to keep hoping and keep saying "maybe" and then just get back to work. We need to stay connected to joy and to hope and to love.

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I love that folk tale so much….it gives me so much hope especially when things “seem” so terrible…..maybe?

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Yes! It is giving me hope too 💛

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Luck is 4 wabbits.

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and,in response to your essay: people in this country afraid of ANYTHING only need look in the mirror and submit to the awful truth that we are seeing outside ourselves what is in our individual hearts. i am absolutely unafraid of what comes after next week. the world and her people are actually doing well. that is if you have the courage to turn off the screens and speak face to face with the people around you. there may be a strong dose of adulthood coming in our collective future.

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Great post- quick question - do you have an archive of the workshops or recommendations on things like personal chart reading, tarot card reading - I would trust your recommendations. Thanks

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The moment you said “i watch love island for fun” thsi put a huge smile on my face, because I knew we were the same Elise😂😂 we need more people admitting they like Love Island! ❤️

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Perfect! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!!

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Thank you for this dose of perspective and hopefulness. I really needed it this week. ♥️

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Elise, I really enjoyed your special solo episode on the podcast—I listened to it last night! It brought a smile to my face to see you mention Love Island UK in this article too. 😉

Thank you for sharing this story as a counter to pessimism. 🙏🏽 I appreciate your nuanced reminder that “next week doesn’t decide our futures or deliver us to certainty and security,” and your encouragement for everyone to vote.

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time for us to stop making famous people gods and to FINALLY confront the food industry long time in bed with pesticide companies and big pharma. time to confront wall street having commodified water and food in the last 60 years. this so that ‘investment’ companies continue to contaminate the earth using sick agri biz practices which only hell scrape soil. time for us all to stop allowing these entities to gaslight and misinform us through advertisement and deliberate obscuration of the truth about how deadly and manipulated packaged foods have become. and it’s time to take the land back so that states can return to feeding people LOCALLY in order that we all get off the global toxic food system which is racist at the very least and destructive to LIFE at its absolute worst.

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