“Your worst fears are just that, fears. All you know, all you have done is always there with you, will always be so. Nothing is lost when you leap--jump in-- with openness to the great whatever.” WisdomActionFaithFearTrustNew YearRenewalBegin AgainOpenResolutions Author:Shellen Lubin
“We move forward, treading carefully, assessing the fault lines; the red flags; the triggers, the trigger-happy destroyers, and the destruction left in their wake; and the seers and the vigilant doers as well, those trying to stem the tide of authoritarianism and dictatorship. We continually assess when and how to protest; when and how to silently stand strong; when to retreat; and if and when we must run. All must be reflected on, new findings factored in, continually assessed and re-assessed... Talk about what's happening--it helps. Weigh your options, for yourself and those you love--it helps. Weigh your options for taking action and making a difference if you can--it helps. Make contingency plans--it helps. Fear nothing.” LoveWisdomActionCourageLearningGratitudeReflectionDestructionProtestFear Nothing Author:Shellen Lubin
“I am one one only one still one who can do something not everything but not nothing. I am one one only one still one who can join with others who are doing something same lane different lanes leading following making noise making fun making art making love making a difference.” LoveArtActionFunImpactNoiseOneMake A DifferenceDo SomethingNot Nothing Not Everything Author:Shellen Lubin
“You are one one only one still one who can do something not everything but not nothing. Pick a lane. Find a task. Make noise. Make fun. Make art. Make love. Make a difference.” LoveArtActionFunNoiseMake A DifferenceDo SomethingNot Nothing Not Everything Author:Shellen Lubin
“If we do not rise up and topple this particular group of gilded men, we will not ever get another chance to aspire to anything.” ActionJoyCommunityAspireNowRiseResistIn Action Author:Shellen Lubin
“Movement. Action. Curiosity. Discovery. Sometimes being stuck means going deep and deep discoveries are made there, but sometimes stuck is just stuck and some kind of movement is required to get things going.” TruthActionChangeMovementDiscoveryCuriosityDeepGetting Unstuck Author:Shellen Lubin
“Whose life matters to you? Who do you speak for? Who do you defend? How large is your vision of the world? How much pain and destruction of others is too much for you to stand? We all must ask ourselves those questions right now. Ask and ponder and ask again. We all must ask each other these questions. And the answers will lead us to what we must do-- individually and collectively, small and large actions-- what we must do.” ActionPainVisionDestructionRepresentationQuestionsSoul SearchingDefendWhose Life Matters Author:Shellen Lubin
“Sympathy is not action, and does not absolve us of the need to do something. Action is effective with this travesty, pushing back creates friction and exposure if incapable of stopping the destruction altogether. He's weak tea. Not just Putin can bully him. Even Musk can bully him, even Musk's young son. We have to keep remembering that. And the political minions following him can even more easily be bullied-- that's how he got them on board in the first place. They don't want to lose their place and their power. Do something. Make a call. Write a letter. Attend a protest or a town hall. It may not stop everything, but it may stop something. And at least we'll have tried.” WritingTryingActionPowerCallingProtestBullyDo SomethingEmergencyWeak Tea Author:Shellen Lubin
“Something needs to shift,' you cry. 'I can't deal with it the way it is.' If something needs to shift, shift something. Anything. Even something that doesn't work will cause action, and in action you will figure out more than when you are stuck... When you're stuck... it's hard to get moving again. When you feel like you can't move, any movement will shake things up.” ActionProcessMovementStuckResistanceInertiaShiftMake A Move Author:Shellen Lubin
“It is important to dream, but then, but then, it is also important to do, to make, to attempt, to fail, to learn, to grow, to create, to devise, to fail again, to learn more, to persist, go on, hold on, keep holding on, against all odds, defying logic, and then, and only then you may just work a vision into being.” DreamActionFaithCreationPersistenceLearnPossibilitiesCreateGrowOpen To The Possibilities Author:Shellen Lubin
“This is not an easy time, love, and yet … In order to leap and land, you must leap, And in that moment of leaping, there may be No solid ground, no safety rail, But in that moment you fly.” ActionFaithStruggleFlyingMoving ForwardUnknownFlyThe No New Normal New Normal Author:Shellen Lubin
“We cannot have reckless hope... Everything that actually happens happens in the real world, our real world. We need to take action, have hope and faith, but also learn from what actually occurs... Another tricky balancing act. Another contradictory co-existing reality. Another tightrope dance.” ActionFaithHopeBalancing ActTightrope Dance Author:Shellen Lubin
“Check yourself because it can be a gift to go slowly through an action (an action you do all the time mindlessly) and see how you do it, see it anew, like when an American drives a car in England, or peeling the first pomegranate of the season, or entering anywhere you haven't been for a very very long time.” ActionGiftsCheck YourselfAnew Author:Shellen Lubin
“Hope is bubbling in the ocean of our collective lives... I can feel the hope bubbling inside, popping little pockets of air rising to the surface. I try to suppress them-- too soon, unsure, can't afford to risk-- but why? And why would I want to? Those bubbles pop joy into the air, spring action to life, and they feel so good, massaging the soul.” LoveSoulActionJoyFaithHopeInterconnectednessHope Bubbles Author:Shellen Lubin
“Beauty all around us. Disaster all around us. Contradictory co-existing realities all around us-- and always, most definitely, inside us. But that is nothing new. That has always been true. So tell me, tell me, What are we going to do?” RealityActionNatureBeautyProgressFutureClimate ChangeDisasterAccountabilityBeautiful Disaster Author:Shellen Lubin
“A dream you dream together is not always a reality, but it is definitely the first necessary step towards making it one.” RealityActionCommunityCourageProgressCommitmentPerseveranceTriumphAccountabilityOther Side Of Fear Author:Shellen Lubin