The tree outside my window is in a hurry this year, the pretty little white flowers have barely burst through and the leaves are already sprouting. This time of birth is so magical to me, I love experiencing spring, bursting forth to it's fullest potential. For years and years I only observed this time of year through a window. Longing to be outside, praying for a break that I could go sit in the sun. This is the first time in almost 18 years that I will get to fully enjoy the beauty of the season. I am beyond excited.
Today will be a mixture of cloudy skies and rain. But we all need a bit of that to develop to our fullest. Right now I have a lot of family and friends that are going through that period of cloudy skies and rain in a figurative way. My sweet little great nephew is struggling hard, they are trying to keep him healthy enough to heal so that he can have the next surgery. It's tentatively scheduled for the end of the month, we'll see. Little guy managed to catch the same virus that put him in the hospital less than a month ago, he's fighting to get well again.
I have to tell you, I am amazed at the strength, love and hope that his parents, grand parents and the entire family is showing. I am only his great aunt, and I don't know that I am as strong as the rest of them. I firmly believe the saying that you never know how strong you are until you aren't given a choice. They are a living testament to it.
I know that all I can do is continue to pray, offer any support needed and send all the positive healing energy I can. I also ask friends and family to do the same.
In a way I feel our entire world is going through a period of rebirth and it's painful. So many things are going on that no longer feel like happenstance. They aren't coincidences and personally I am struggling with so many things that we have been "taught" over time. Slowly but surely, I am coming to feel that far too many things that seemed like national or global tragedies or crisis's were far more likely planned and executed. So many things have been hidden and glossed over. We've been told so many stories and lies.
The more time I spend disconnected and not participating in the media and the social constructs we've all been programmed to accept, the more I feel I see it clearly for what it is. We can't be here simply to work, sleep and do it all over again. We are meant for far greater things, to experience life, to be connected to not only the earth but to one another, I do not believe we were ever meant to be so disconnected from each other or our beautiful planet.
Most of us are working strictly to benefit some major corporation or company. We aren't truly benefitting from any of it. Even those of us that are blessed to work for ourselves end up giving more of what we earn to someone further up the food chain. When we demand higher wages, they simply raise the cost of everything so that we are no further ahead than when we began. Doesn't it strike anyone odd that there was a time a house payment was about $100 a month and people struggled to pay it? A loaf of bread was a nickle? And let's not even go into how much a gallon of gas was. I used to own a classic car, she was a beautiful 1963 Mercury Comet, I was the second owner. I had her original bill of sale, fully loaded with the custom wheels, she was less than $2500. Can you imagine buying a brand new car for that amount? Today you'd be lucky if all the parts were included and it ran for that amount.
Here's the thing slowly but surely wages have risen, in lockstep so have the costs. While the margin of wealth of the average individual has shrunk. If they raise the cost of your home, your vehicle etc it isn't because it is something of higher value, nothing has changed much in the value, but because someone needs to make a greater profit off of you the individual they raise the value and then raise the tax amount and interest that you have to pay to own those things.
We want to believe that we are simply paying a small portion of our income in taxes, when the reality is it is far greater and we are actually only getting a small portion of our wages to do with as we please. It's a giant shell game and we are all the suckers trying to guess where the ball is.
Someone posed a question the other day about property taxes and personal property taxes. I've always been very opposed to them and struggle hard to process my thoughts around it. When reading comments, someone had said... don't you find it odd that you pay sales tax when you buy it, you make monthly payments - if you couldn't buy it outright - and then every year you are paying a tax just to have your own property. Add in to that the taxes that you pay on gas. I mean, seriously? As I processed all of that I felt even more disgust at the situation. It's bad enough that every year just in time for Christmas in our state you get a nice hefty bill due by the 31st of December. It's on any vehicle you owned on January 1 of that year. And you pay the full year on every vehicle. Hubs and I lost one and sold one last year in July, yet we still had the awesome opportunity to pay for a full year of personal property taxes on both of them. Talk about rubbing salt into a wound.
Our Mayor is pushing for people to vote next month for Prop U. It's to charge additional taxes on your online purchases. Because people are shopping more online than they are shopping locally. So they want a piece of that in addition to what you are already paying in taxes for state taxes, and oh yeah the country wants to pass one too. As I listened to him trying to explain the good the money would do for our community, how it would allow us to once again go back to not paying the $6 per month we pay for trash I started to really consider what he was saying.
In exchange for increasing the cost of every item I buy online, I will save $6 a month. So that they can have more cash available to pay for city workers salaries (they need to offer higher salaries), healthcare (they don't want to make them pay higher premiums) , etc in addition to allowing everyone in the city to stop paying their $6 a month for trash. And if there is anything left over maybe do some nice things for the city. So wait, you are buying a new city hall and decided that instead of just using the building as is you are now going to do some major renovations because you like nice things, but you are financing that on the backs of the community.
Lets not forget that when people shop online they are not being fair to the local businesses. Huh? Is it possible that people shop online because the local businesses aren't meeting their needs? That they are nothing but big box companies that tell you what you get to choose from (only allowing you to trade in your tokens for things they deem of need or value), prohibiting you from purchasing things that would provide you better health (yes, I know that is the government), that raise their prices and provide less? That make you wait in line for an extreme amount of time because they don't have enough employees yet there are always three or four standing around not helping and socializing.
All of it is messed up. Think about it from a non-influenced place. When you step away from the mass delusional hysteria that has swept the globe it's easy to see that you are simply being used to generate money. Because somehow, at some point money became far more important than people, the earth, our spirits, our very lives.
I don't know where this birthing process will lead. I am praying that it leads us to a better place. Where we learn our value and not the dollar amount assigned to us, like we are cattle for some wealthy persons benefit.
In my personal utopia we are self-sufficient, we look out for one another without the all powerful folks interfering. Where we stop being so self-righteous and judgmental of our fellow man. Where the last thing we would ever do is intentionally hurt another for whatever reason, and immediately make amends when we do so unintentionally. A world where we rally around to lift those up that need it.
I am not here to simply work, work, work. None of us are. We are also not here to be controlled. We've been conditioned to believe that if we don't have gobs and gobs of rules and laws there will be anarchy, chaos and destruction. I am questioning that more and more as days go by. I am beginning to believe that all those rules and laws are to control us, to make us unable to defend, feed and nurture ourselves. To make us dependent little sheep.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be laws against harming your fellow man. But how different might life be if we hadn't had some of our own moral compass stripped away over the years? Besides, what kind of benefit is it to not allow the sale of raw milk in some states, the inability to raise chickens, the use of natural medicines, etc... That is about control.
Wow, as you can tell I am in a bit of a mood. Don't know why? I just feel like so many things are becoming clearer to me. So much is making sense that didn't. I'm not sure if it is a good feeling or a sense of angst and semi-hopelessness at situations that feel beyond control. Beyond the point of no return.
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| what a goofy way to enjoy their antlers... |
Instead of stressing out about things that at this moment in time I cannot change, I think I am going to focus on sending healing love and light to my great nephew and go work on projects that I can impact while I spend a few moments extra enjoying my babies. It's a time of great changes, it's a time of seeing things with clear vision, it's a time of holding your own value and not letting anyone lessen it.
love and peace...
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