"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
--Isaac Newton
What a weekend! What a time. What a life!
There is so much movement
swirling...
Here in San Diego, we had the LGBT community out in full force, celebrating PRIDE.
Personally, I LOVE people bee-ing OUT, period.
On Friday night, I was surrounded by a few of my closest tribe members, as we walked along a University Avenue, taking in all of the extravagant people watching, dancing to live bands on the sidewalk, and just generally bee-ing happy that business was booming for our local shops and restaurants.
After yesterday's 1.5 mile parade, of which 200, 000 people were expected to attend, festival attendees were offered an opportunity to get married as wanton celebration of the overturning of California's Prop 8. More and more, the legalization of gay marriage has become a common ocurrence, happening from state to state across the nation.
Meanwhile, on the same day, racial inequities once again flared their ugly head, as the Florida murder of an unarmed teenage boy by an armed security guard was ruled as anything but guilty. My Facebook news feed is currently littered with the balance of the intoxication of LIFE tempered by red-hot cries for justice. There are also reports of a woman's right to choose being, once again, pried from her own, two hands, in Texas and, perhaps, elsewhere. We take twelve steps forward, and twelve steps back - or, so it seems.
Regionally, there is also scandal brewing around the city of San Diego's current mayor and his complete lack of ethics and integrity. "OUT!" we the people are crying. "ENOUGH!" "Basta." So, it's an exciting time ~ to say the least. And, it is easy to notice how easily one could beecome swept with the tide, rollicking and rolling from one high to another, pitching with the boat, being pulled in opposing directions. It's really quite a natural act - in fact, it is Newton's Third Law of Motion.
With my radical feminism, I openly beelieve that pushing hard in the direction of GOD AS WOMAN, Female Power and Feminine Divinity is an important peace of equalizing the scales. However, in a Facebook post of not too long ago, someone actively challenged me to look at the perspective that, maybee, we can just find center. Maybee, we don't have to rock and roll, pitch and heave, bob and weave, our way back. Perhaps, we are here, now.
I SURE AM.
For I am focused on my VISION and on my beelief that - perhaps instead of marching, instead of chanting and resisting, raising our fists and revolting - we can just open our hearts a little wider and SHIFT OUR VALUES. Away from a violence as entertainment indoctrination; away from an other as object and materials as value; away from acute selfishness and in towards extreme, self-focused spirituality in which your life is the greatest tale ever told.
What choices do you make in every moment then?
MOMENT BY MOMENT BY MOMENT
by moment by moment by moment...
Is all there ever is.
P.S. Perhaps, then, our goal is to bee like the axis in the image of the scale above - eternally weighing the intersection points of light and dark, masculine and feminine, good and bad, black and white, etc.
p.s.s. I am not too stoked on the image above - it doesn't quite capture the essence of what I am expressing here. I am, however, excited about where I found the image from: here -
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