But I will wear my heart on my sleeve

For daws to peck at

It’s been a long time since I was reminded of the entire Shakespeare quote from Othello.

This morning a friend sent me this article written by a fellow “substacker” Katherine May…

In it, she writes of Sinead and her willingness to be vulnerable and what that ultimately cost her. What it costs so many of us to write openly and authentically. It’s powerful and I highly recommend you take the time to read it.

This week, as I openly shared on social media my current struggle, I was “assaulted” by someone who “knows better” than I, shamed, blamed and belittled because, clearly I don’t understand that we “create our reality” and everything I am going through is of my own creation and fault.

Well…duh and not entirely true. If you’ve followed my writings you’ll know that I have stated for years that we don’t actually “create reality” in the sense that we can manifest Mercedes from our arse… We create our perception of it.

My favorite physicist, Amit Goswami has said that while its possible for humans to manipulate matter with thought, most of us can barely move a speck of dust with our breathe.

What many forget is that we exist in a co-creation. While we act as individuals, we are actually a collaboration of creators and the reality we are all existing in has been on a crash course for annihilation for a very very long time.

Our individualism is part of the problem. When corporations own 1 in 4 properties in the US, when medical care is the number one cause for bankruptcies, when the bottom line means more than a humans existence...yea, that’s a problem and we are all going to face it one way or another.

Until we decide we are no longe willing. Which is part of what’s happening with the strikes and battles being waged by the workers of this world these days. I hope we don’t cave out of desperation.

The other day while driving with my son, we hit a traffic jam. There was no accident or obvious cause of it. My son asked my why we were stuck in traffic and I asked him to look around, he saw cars trying to merge where no one would let them in, he saw people cutting off other drivers aggressively trying to be “first” in a line that had no beginning and no ending, he heard honking from cars at other cars with no where to go. Everyone in their own little bubble pushing ahead regardless of the impact on anyone else around them.

I said to him, if everyone would just think of the person in front of them and behind them, follow the “You go then I go” rule, offer a little grace and patience, we’d be moving ahead, slowly but there would be progress. Unfortunately we are a “me first” society and that will be the death of us all.