May We Reflect on Our Shared Journey? Preventing Harm, Conflict and Confusion 101
From: catherine paton <cppaton@yahoo.com>
To: catherine paton <cppaton@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, May 3, 2021, 10:00:24 AM EDT
Subject: May We Reflect on Our Shared Journey?
To the Editor:
"What If" is still a legal way to explore many topics that are off-limits. But who
knows how long that will last.
Maybe safest to put on a play or write fiction about
characters who ask the forbidden questions, recount the past and explore the future
from a place of permissibility (depending on the faith, cultural, social and legal limits.)
There are places where it is not okay for certain people to speak, draw pictures mocking holy people or national policies and much more.
Then there is the realm of what is okay to say, do or where to be in terms of gangs, domestic abuse dynamics and racial-based screening and violence as we all witnessed with the crucifixion type event that resulted in the death of George Floyd by the Judas type figure of Derek Chauvin"istic".
On my blogs livfully.org I explore these kinds of ideas and mainly exploring WIT--"What If Thinking." I also aim to acknowledge and celebrate people of all walks of life at each age and stage of life. Ideas can be sent to me at cppaton@yahoo.com.
A theme is how can we take collective voluntary ownership of sharing ways to live and interact that prevent a great deal of conflict and harm in our lives, on the roads, in schools and workplaces and even among family, friends and community members whether locally, statewide, nationally or globally and on-line?
We can appreciate our shared legacies and right the wrongs of the past with some support for asking and seeking ways to promote healing and networks to allow for greater resources to flow in our dreams and help us create winning teams for civil, sensible living today.
Let's say Yes to the the Miracles in May as we remember Mothers, Fathers, Parents, New Humans (children) and Communities that all work together for the greater good.
Catherine Palmer Paton, Falls Village CT,
