I am sitting in Bali at a writers retreat. I hear distressing news about bombings in France and Lebanon, as well as the usual inhumanity to man that happens on an all too common basis. Once again I am struck with grief, and bewilderment, at how these horrible acts could ever be committed by someone that had a mother and a father and a sister or a brother, a friend or a child. Which is all of us, any of us that fit in one or more of those categories.
For a moment I feel weak and defeat. I wonder what anyone can do about this, how to conduct oneself to be a help not a harm. And then I hear about Porte Ouverte! How the people not immediately in harm’s way offer sanctuary though social media, and make community instead of collapse into fear.
Yes. Yes Yes, that’s it... Open our doors, invite with love, refuse to give in to the darkness! Trust something bigger! Our Blood Beating Hearts!
Reminds me of the story of the Danish People putting the Star of David on all of their shirts, foiling the Nazi’s attempt at division, and self-preservation, the lowest of human instincts. When we refuse to recoil in fear, we rob the Evil of its intended target, our hearts, mind and bodies. We say Yes to love,
To community, NO to hate and isolation. We create both literal and metaphorical Sanctuary, a sacred space for love, a sacred space to heal, a safe place to lay down our burdens and grief. Someday soon, these kinds of acts will be unthinkable. Someday soon, all will awaken to the fact that every act of harm to another only bounces back to the one harming. Someone once told me that a scar heals stronger than the skin around it, from the very necessity of the original hurt. We will come through this dark day and the days to come, stronger and more determined and resilient than ever before.
Open Door! Porte Ouverte! Our Hearts Minds and Bodies are depending on it!
With love and light,
Satchi
Bali
For a moment I feel weak and defeat. I wonder what anyone can do about this, how to conduct oneself to be a help not a harm. And then I hear about Porte Ouverte! How the people not immediately in harm’s way offer sanctuary though social media, and make community instead of collapse into fear.
Yes. Yes Yes, that’s it... Open our doors, invite with love, refuse to give in to the darkness! Trust something bigger! Our Blood Beating Hearts!
Reminds me of the story of the Danish People putting the Star of David on all of their shirts, foiling the Nazi’s attempt at division, and self-preservation, the lowest of human instincts. When we refuse to recoil in fear, we rob the Evil of its intended target, our hearts, mind and bodies. We say Yes to love,
To community, NO to hate and isolation. We create both literal and metaphorical Sanctuary, a sacred space for love, a sacred space to heal, a safe place to lay down our burdens and grief. Someday soon, these kinds of acts will be unthinkable. Someday soon, all will awaken to the fact that every act of harm to another only bounces back to the one harming. Someone once told me that a scar heals stronger than the skin around it, from the very necessity of the original hurt. We will come through this dark day and the days to come, stronger and more determined and resilient than ever before.
Open Door! Porte Ouverte! Our Hearts Minds and Bodies are depending on it!
With love and light,
Satchi
Bali