October 28, 2025

We are paying the price for electing Donald Trump, and will be paying it for the rest of our life. This train wreck won't fix itself, put itself back on the tracks and chug along to glory in our life time. We are on our own. It is up to us to put our life together in the aftermath of the complete loss of everything. 

We start with our attitude. Suffering is made worse by the way we bear our suffering. Meeting the basic cost of living for the duration will be out of the question for a lot of people, and some of the people are working on ways to help with that. Those of us who are able can donate cash to the helping agencies and tip better at the coffee shops and restaurants. Cash encourage-ment is important in keeping people going. I say that wondering how long my social security checks will keep coming and Medicare helping with my medical needs. It could get really dicey and quite out of hand in no time, and making it from day-to-day will be interesting for all of us.

We all have inner resources, sources of guidance, direction, encouragement and insight/realization/awareness/knowledge... We are all members of a species that has survived environmental catastrophes and hardship throughout time, and we all have a genetic core that can be trusted to be what we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done to respond appropriately to all of the "Here we are, now what's?" in our path. So, we start building our relationship with and our reliance upon our inner capacity to be for ourselves "a very present help in time of trouble." 

Drop into the silence throughout the day, open to and present with what meets us there, and see where it goes throughout the times that are upon us and beyond.