December 10th, 2008
Your Turn: Uprooting Upheaval
Call me crazy, but there seems to be some upheaval going on in the world and I can’t cocoon myself against it. New President-elect in the US imparting hope for newness and change permeates the media here in Canada and certainly everywhere else. Parliament here has been temporarily suspended, much to the horror of many Canadians, as, for us polite, placid Canucks, this is highly irregular and drastic.
Economic realities are showing their effects vividly during this season of revved-up consuming (oh, and giving). There’s a strange vibe that I can’t quite grasp or describe or identify and it’s bothering me that I can’t somehow haiku it, in a sense. I feel like I’m in something of a stupor.
I feel anxious and vulnerable, resolved and sombre, hopeful and grassrootsy and once again on the cusp of some sort of huge breakthrough. How to create some quiet space within? How to feel rooted and established in such a time of uncertainty everywhere?
I was hoping to write something more helpful and solid than that in this entry…but…I simply cannot, not today, not this season, not yet, not right now. I’m just looking for a point of reference that makes sense because I feel like I can barely recognize the world anymore…but then again, I forget what the old one seemed like to me.
YOUR TURN: Do you feel the same way? If so, what are you doing to deal with it? We really want to know!
