welcome, welcome to day forty- five of a season of peace falling on the potent ides of march, a day when we are asked to follow the ancient admonition to beware, to be aware of this day…

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may our heart stay loving and open especially when we feel hurt and frayed…

may we open to always including others in love’s vast embrace…

may our heart remain pure and kind amid the painful details and muck of life…

may virtue and serenity be bedrock for all…

may our brokenheartedness break open our heart ever wider and deeper bringing forth ever more expansive love and compassion…

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there are so many images i could share for this potent day when collectively our hearts are broken by the tragedy in New Zealand and renewed by the children of the earth who once again rise across the planet to say…

ENOUGH!

this picture is from a year and a day ago when students across the planet organized a day of compassion for the one month anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida and it seems so perfect for toaday’s doule honoring of  the lives lost in another massacre and students rising again to say…

ENOUGH!

these words from years ago remain a wonderful call to action…

“Be a nuisance when it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, & disappointed at failure & the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption & bad politics — but never give up.”

~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~

and now, may we all be heartened and inspired into action by the words of the young woman whose weekly solitary protests grew and grew into this day of students across the globe from 112 countries and counting joined her in walking out and saying…

“I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”

yes, a single Swedish schoolgirl with Asperger’s  determined to take on the planet’s blind billionaires and leaders everywhere urged her peers to face the disaster that’s an increasingly obvious part of all our lives and that their parents have generally been remarkably unable to face… she was and is striking for the right to a future…

within months, thousands and then tens of thousands of high-school students across Europe, Australia and Japan, among other places, joined Greta Thunberg, a 15 years old with a mind of her own and a sign demanding a school strike against climate change, in her walking out for “Fridays for Future” protests…

bringing us back to today’s millions of students saying…

ENOUGH!