What is your discomfort level at the moment? Some women friends and I were discussing that question in relation to the anti racism demonstrations happening in the USA and around the world.
It’s been three months now I’ve been stuck in Florida and three months since most other people in most other places have been stuck at home in varying forms of comfort and discomfort. The current level of global disruption is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes.
As things start to open up in some places, fear is resurfacing from its hiding places just as we were getting comfortable with our discomfort. Anti-black racism which bubbles under the surface in many white lives is now front and center and hard to ignore. Along with it are all manner of lies and misinformation rising up and coming out not just about police brutality but about who, what, where and why we responded to COVID-19 the way we did and all the repercussions that are only now beginning to be felt and rippling down the economic chain.
We wonder what to believe, who to believe and what to do about disturbing information we know to be true. Discomfort is high but so is the opportunity for positive change. The winds of change are blowing. Let’s hoist up the sails, batten down the hatches and use our discomfort to see where the journey can take us.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could emerge from this period of radical dis-ease into a brave new world of balance, unity, mutual care, compassion and peace?
June 15, 2020