Feeling the Bigger Love as the Middle of May comes round and a Fly-Over at 11 AM-ish in Sharon CT on 5/14/20

"The Connecticut Air National Guard will be honoring healthcare workers on Thursday with a flyover. The 103rd Airlift Wing's Flying Yankees scheduled a “salute to Connecticut healthcare workers” for Thursday. Officials said C-130H Hercules aircraft will be conducting flyovers of hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the state as part of Operation American Resolve."

Local locations and times include:

Torrington 11:08 a.m.
Sharon 11:13 a.m.
Danbury 11:27 a.m.

I'll plan to be in Sharon to appreciate this... It happens to be my birthday and a few other people locally I've been lucky to know are doing well in their first decades of life..(and for whatever it means to people also FB's Mark Zuckerberg's. The greater sense of connection and willingness for people to keep in touch on FB and similar platforms and email would likely have happened eventually. Hopefully we can continue to make technology part of the better way of learning and functioning as a society.)

In terms of appreciation, I will be thinking of all those in spirit as well, 'we all have loved ones gone to glory' and we learn and grow in countless ways from the legacies of generations of good amazing people...and some showing us the more difficult paths life entails.

Our late teen son Kaelan Alexander was the 8th generation with that middle name (and the first with his first name...)

His grandfather Sandy was Charles Alexander and his Dad David also shared that middle name. With Folksingers Sandy and Caroline Paton now in the spirit realm, along with my parents who were born close to a hundred years ago, the late Mary and Dale Palmer. Srs...I'll have plenty to reflect on. Folk Legacy is now part of The Smithsonian Folkways collection.
My father was in WW2 and hailed from New Mexico, meeting my mom who was from Torrington, in New Hampshire.

These kinds of things may have been 'fairly common' but informed the northwest corner rural towns and kept ties with Torrington as they settled on in Salisbury and Falls Village to rear many who went to local schools and HVRHS as well as Oliver Wolcott and some to colleges within two hours of the northwest corner of CT as well as further away.

With many relatives, one working for USAID for decades, and others going into medicine from home care, nursing, midwifery and doctoring, the care factor is a strong theme.

Knowing many families have a similar theme of helping and keeping connected makes facing these modern challenges more comprehensible.

I am among many joining in learning about bridging gaps in information for helping people stay healthier and pro-active throughout their lives (preventing leptin imbalance, insulin resistane, pre-diabetes, and diabetes as well as metabolic syndromes and much more...)

Much of that can be learned online and clearly needs to become part of an ongoing worldwide discussion since it is not anyone's job to warn people in ways to 'see trouble coming' and take preventive measures with support.

Thankfully more people are offering their insights online. Our world needs to pay better attention to the climate change concerns as well and there will be a meeting with 350.org online at 2pm on 5/14. Let's see what we can do to make the world a safer, healthier place with common sense and care guiding our next steps.

There are many saying this time of transition is one in which people will be able to make better choices and receive a more healing set of ways to feel more at peace with being human beings and team players.

See Livfully.org for some ideas and again, plenty more online. Many thanks to all working along these lines and learning from free outreaches such as on Doulagivers.com about helping people address serious illnesses, difficulties with aging or living with support and approaching the natural cycle of dying with grace and support. End of Life Doulas (EOLDs or other similar terms such as Life Care Consultants or Death Doulas) are helping more people understand that there are many more seniors than younger people in our country (and much of the world.)

The logistics of caring for those who may need support to live safely and to have support to age and eventually face their time of passing is something more people can address with forethought and planning. EOLDs and other outreaches can assist with that, yet clearly health and government policies will affect the options for people as well.

It can take years if not a decade or more to help a community develop effective resources, so more people consider these matters, much as we have had to do regarding the CV19 situation.

Thanks to all doing their part and thinking of others whether in smaller towns or cities where the needs can be far more pressing and complex. Best to everyone as we discover the "Miracles for All, Yes!" In May and beyond.

Peace, love and light with much gratitude for everyone doing the hard work of keeping up with the needs of those in dire situations and helping keep our society functioning in essential ways. It all makes a key difference and provides us with a critical foundation of security and hope for a brighter future.