#human beingness

[innervoyagesthroughart]

"Move forward...don't look back... because this is all we have... time don't wait for no one..."

Music: Start Again (feat. Elena Tonra) -- Rob Simonsen & Faux Fix (Album: The Age of Adaline -- Original Motion Picture Score) 

Series: Have You Told Your Beloved Ones You Love Them Today? 

This is the first video from a series highlighting moments from the last family reunion that two precious families took together to celebrate my parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary. Little did we know then that it would be the last vacation we would all take together before terrific setbacks and deaths of our loved ones would take them from us forever.   

Life is precious. Making these videos helps me remember how much goodness fills my life, not just the tragedy I am enduring now; nor the tragedies the whole country has been enduring especially this year as political division has split friends and families into smaller and smaller groups defined by what divides rather than what unites. 

I tell you. When it comes right down to the wire and you are fortunate enough to be by the bedside of a loved one when they are dying, differences don't matter. All that matters is the love shared. If we take anything with us when we die, it is love... nothing more... not opinions, beliefs, money, not even your body, but possibly love goes with you when you die. 

This song is absolutely perfect to begin this mini series of memories. And it is absolutely perfect for today (November 7, 2020) when the extremely contentious Presidential election was called for Biden around 11:30 am EST. We are more alike than we are different, and it is the moments when we are able to hold opposing views and opposing qualities (the good deeds and the hurtful deeds done), which are possessed by our friends and members of our family and complete strangers and in ourselves in dynamic balance that we create a more beautiful reality defined by love. 

This is what matters in the end...not popularity, not power, not being right all the time... it is love. Just as this beautiful song says: "Time won't wait for no one... so start again..." 

Why waste our short and precious time in the light of love with division and destruction? 

This is the Here and Now to heal and unite. Biden is right, we choose not to cooperate... we can also choose to cooperate... and we can choose to love each other... even strangers because we are all human and we are all here on this beautiful planet Here and Now. We can all start a new beginning because we are human! 

P.S. -- I don't know about you, but I cried a lot tonight watching everything unfold on the radio and TV while making this mini movie of my beloved ones. When CNN transcripts are finished for Don Lemon tonight, I will link them here because he said something so raw, so true, so healing, so full of heart... it is one of millions of shining moments unfolding in this Now. 

All of us are part of the light, if we choose to be in the light, which is love. Division is deep, and it's very dark down there regardless of if we fall down there because of something a brother or a sister did to us, or a friend forgot to do, or purposeful deception to push people down there... it doesn't matter... it's just dark down there in the hole of division, mistrust, hate, jealousy, resentment, mistrust, bitterness, greed, rapacity, avarice...you get the idea.  Fill up your hole with the sweet, nourishing waters of love, which runs deep inside of you... in the place we call soul.

[jackabelle73]

[kanadabiscuits]

'We understand what they're feeling': Syrian refugees in Calgary step up to help Fort McMurray fire evacuees

When Rita Khanchet saw images of a vicious wildfire destroying homes and uprooting tens of thousands of people in Fort McMurray, she immediately thought of Syria, the homeland she fled just five mo…

“We understand what they’re feeling. When you lose everything, you have to start from zero. You lose your memories, your items. It’s not easy. It’s something very sad. We can totally understand their feeling,” Khanchet said.

“We are very thankful to the Canadian people and we want to be a part of this society. We will do our best to be a good part of this society. By doing that, maybe we can return a little bit of the great job that Canadian people did for us.”

[kanadabiscuits]

Why Nova Scotia gives Boston its Christmas tree for free every year

The gratitude we feel is undiminished, and I only wish more people in Boston were taught about how, in a time of destruction and devastation, their city was a bastion of compassion and invaluable aid.

On December 6, 1917, a Norweigan relief ship and a French munitions ship collided in Halifax Harbour. The resulting explosion remained the largest man-made explosion until Hiroshima, and flattened a large part of Halifax and Dartmouth. Debris landed 5 kilometres away from the impact site, 10,000 people were wounded or killed, and approximately 30,000 people were left either homeless or without proper shelter and facilities.

And then the snow storm hit, burying the wreckage in 16 inches of snow.

With the city left in tatters, two days later having had to clear the rails to travel, Boston’s aid arrived-- blankets, food, surgeons, nurses, and a fully-equipped base hospital. It was desperately needed and made all the difference in the world to a city in shock. It was the kind of unthinking kindness, an automatic response to neighbours hurting and in need, that restores faith in humanity.

And so we send a tree every year and this year the donors were Bill and Andrea MacEachern of Lorne, Pictou Co. Mr. MacEachern competed in the Boston Marathon in 1996 on its 100th anniversary and placed in the top five per cent. The MacEacherns are donating their 15 metre (49 feet) white spruce that is about 72 years old.

The article goes into more detail, but that’s the gist. And so thank you. And Merry Christmas.

[ficdirectory]

Watching a show like The Fosters is so important, but lately I have lost a bit of the heart of the show amidst all the other things going on. This really puts things in perspective. I just saw it on Facebook. This makes me never once regret my own involvement - no matter how small or temporary - in being a cleared babysitter for kids in foster care.

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This is a fabulous blog post, about safety, about teaching the kids in your life that their voice, their opinion and their personhood matters.

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Beautiful story. Gives me hope for humanity. Good job, kiddos.

[ficdirectory]

This is Batman. He's shy.

The Pink Power Ranger, introducing me to her little brother, when they stopped in to Trick or Treat.