peace work

day 67

cycle day 5

fringe habit day 4

85 degrees, sunny

waxing gibbous

page of wands reveresed

I keep hitting an afternoon slump. I don’t know if I need more rest or something energizing at that time of day.

“War is a serious disease of Homo sapiens — a real mental illness. When governments promote things that are designed for killing people, we can see that society is suffering from an inconceivable illness of consciousness. It has lost its moral competence. To the aphorism ‘it has always been this way,’ we ask, ‘is it wrong to correct a mistake because it has ‘always’ been this way?’ War definitely has no place in the image of the future world.” -Deiter Duhm

Kenneth Brown stopped by the house last night and we got to talking about human nature. He doesn’t share my utopian idealism of a healed world and yet he acts as if it’s possible (hopes that he’s wrong). Yesterday it seemed to me that the thinking wasn’t so important as long as actions of love come forward but today I’m thinking that actually the thinking might matter. I know that how I think about (judge) a circumstance affects the emotion I will feel and even if I’ve learned to not be reactive to my emotions there’s a lot of energy tied up into not reacting versus emanating a positive emotion because the story I tell myself about the circumstance produces peace.

That’s all the energy I have to give this thought now but he and are talking about doing some sort of collaborative, conversational project and I’m looking forward to exploring the thought further. Headed to Fleurish rehearsal now.