What is Real

Wispy clouds when th elight came up today. The temperature sits at 53 degrees fahrenheit. Today is Sunday.

Strange happenings lately. We are in conversations about what is real, in almost every space we share with each other. Some of the conversations are about politics, some are about the condition of the world we are living in today with the environment breaking down (and up), and some of the conversations are about what is real and true anymore. It is confusing and unsettling.

Thankful for the people who are taking the conditions we find challenging, head on. There is no other way in this moment. The attitude is, "let's dance!" - meaning, we will do what we need to do to keep the rhythm of life going. And, we will not do this out of a place of anxiety and fear; rather, we will do this from a place of making sure that everyone knows that the practical reality is that human beings need moments of joy. Without the joy, there is no real energy to move things. In fact, dance is movement that feels what the music has to say about where we are and what we need to be doing with our bodies.

There is a rhythm to the the way in which things are unfolding. We can see that the times are making contraction a common response to the inevitability of having to grow up. The world is in a moment of allowing strong-arm, male, and material leadership to take up the initial sense-making and mapping of what we as humans are to do next. It won't last. Right now, we can see who is rising to positions of power and leadership - the messages are amplifying the fear-tendency that comes with change of any kind. We live in a moment of utter cloudiness about what might be next and most people will latch on to anything that sounds like a message of certainty (even if that certainty is really not there). That fog is where we are now and quite predictably, the rhythm is intense. The beat of exploitation of a tendency to be stressed about uncertainty is taking hold.

Then, there is another very real thing: Timing. The timing of intervention, interruption, interaction to switch up the possibilities of what outcomes may be produced - is key now. Timed actions that ignore "re-action", have been used to great success in situations where disasters were used to exploit confusion. Timing is a real thing, and we tend to forget it's the partner of rhythm. Catching the rhythm and timing the action that ignores reaction, can produce something else!

And another thing that is real: the universe operates on love, not hate. People may operate on the latter at times; but the universe is the whole deal, infinite and affirming. Even death itself and "near death" are events that represent timing in relation to the rhythm of life. We should be inspired to know that these experiences exist.