Note from Louisa

I wonder a lot lately. I wonder if we are falling asleep at the wheel while so many of the values we hold dear careen out of control toward the cliff’s edge at a perilous speed?
 
I wonder at the unsustainable pace of change that I see around me. The more I compare the world I live in now with the one of 2019 (a mere six years ago), the more I’m aware of just how quickly things can change and how easily I acculturate to the new way of being. I wonder how often I am abdicating my outrage, my resistance, my protest, because I am just too tired, too overwhelmed, or too focused on just putting one foot in front of the other.
 
I wonder what I will say when I wake up six years from now in 2031 in a world that is unrecognizable because, in my infinite adaptability, I forgot to stand up for the values I espouse. I wonder who I will blame. I wonder if I will regret what I might have done but did not. 
 
I wonder if I will continue to put my head down and take care of my own, forgetting that “my own” should extend to all beings, that my stewardship should include all, not just those who have helped me advance, fed my ego or my pocketbook, or who look, think, or worship like me.
 
I wonder if I will have drunk the Kool-Aid by then.
 
I wonder if I already have.
 
For the foreseeable future, I will leave you with these words…
 
“May you be rocked, as deeply as necessary, and as gently as possible”
 
Louisa