Get
Your Game Face On
“Write
it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”
Ralph
Waldo Emmerson
Okay,
we've got a new week spread before us. Monday morning is like a
fresh, sun-dried sheet spread over the bed. Springtime in it's
unfurling. A new week—that, pray God, will be better than last
week.
Someone
said at last week's Jungian board meeting that Pluto, the dwarf
planet, angry at being down-graded from the cosmos, is hurtling
through the constellations at the moment. I don't know anything about
astrology, but when I read about Pluto's influence, it was not good.
Pluto is an aggressive change agent, the kind that barges in,
rearranges your house, takes what it wants, destroys the rest and
doesn't ask your permission about any of it.
Last
week was certainly all of that from the bombing in Boston, followed
by a door-to-door manhunt that shut down the entire city. Then a
fertilizer plant exploded in Texas, killing at least twelve people
and leveling a small town. In the heartland, flooding rivers,
freezing temperatures, and even snow in April. And, of course, in
Washington, our pathetic excuse for a Congress failed to pass gun
legislation that ninety-two percent of Americans want. Who, exactly,
do they represent? And then, as if that weren't enough, there was an
earthquake in China; that same poor province that was leveled a few
years ago got it again. It's like someone turned the Joker loose on
the whole world. Oiye! Such a week!
Today,
however, begins a new week, a better week. We will hold positive
energy. We will light candles for the London marathon and say a
prayer for the survivors of quakes and bombs. We will pick up our
lives, pull up our big-girls and go on. That is what we humans do. We
put on our game face and go. I will hold you in my thoughts and
prayers, and you will hold me. Together, we will make this week
better.
In
the spirit,
Jane
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