Thoughts on what is now

The universe showed me a metaphor that really brought it all home for me as I waited in my car yesterday. Though it was rather disturbing, I would like to share it with you all now and if you know yourself as one who is easily upset, please do not read any further.

I saw a boy hugging a leashed dog on an empty street corner.
The dog was restless and the boy held the animal harder.
The boy stood up and tied the free end of the dog's leash around his own neck. Inevitably, the dog began to move and the boy cried out yet did not untie the leash which was now effectively strangling the boy. In fact, the boy turned to face the opposite direction of the dog's motion and began kicking and screaming as the dog, increasingly alarmed by the boys flailing and yelling, moved faster and faster. Eventually, after almost a whole city block, the boy untied the improvised noose and beat the dog violently with it.

There is nothing that we fear and hate that did not begin with ourselves.

May we now look into our own roles, invest in life and bring our forces home to renew and rebuild this country.
It all starts and stops here.

Let there be peace,
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