This time there are no sides to take. This has been an equal opportunity manipulation and deception.
None of us may claim immunity from what is contained in those files.
Take a look.
I promise you will find someone you trusted.
I’ll go first.
A spiritual leader. A tech giant. A biohacker physician.
Someone I voted for.
Someone else I voted for.
We have watched unabashed evil play out right under our noses and all the while we have been pitted against each other so maybe we wouldn’t notice.
It was easy.
Because, we don’t think like those people. We are the good people. Right?
Most of us could not fathom that any human being, let alone those we trusted, could perform such acts of depravity and cruelty or be complicit in their knowing.
And yet, as history shows, we are extremely accomplished in the diverting of our eyes.
We are privileged in our astonishment.
What do the good people do when there are no good people?
Asking for a friend.
.
I didn’t expect it.
I didn’t expect that a LinkedIn post from a stranger in another industry would be the catalyst for my writing again.
I spend my days producing content encouraging women to speak and yet I have been hiding behind the anonymous expression of my work.
So what was it about this post?
It was a post about dishonest practices in the film industry. It was a post by a woman risking everything to tell the truth.
I would share it here, but I liked it and moved on.
Except I couldn’t.
Just move on.
Because this one was different. It stuck with me. As it should.
This woman said out loud the things we hide in the dark.
She started her post by describing her own fear in telling such a bold truth as nothing in comparison to real fear.
She described her abused mother. She described her definition of real courage and saw hers as nothing in comparison.
She didn’t recognize that her courage was not less than that of her mother but multiplied by her own wound in that trauma.
It was courage compounded.
We don’t often get to see behind the scenes of what makes a strong woman.
But, I promise you won’t have to look too far beneath the surface. Look and you just might see the wounds that almost broke her are in the solid steel rebar grid around which her foundation was poured–the foundation on which she is building a new life.
A new life based in truth.
So speak.
Speak like your daughter/best friend/ colleague/ client is listening.
She is.
We are.
No matter what life brings, I love the holidays! This weekend was nourishing in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
Heartfelt conversations, experiences of transcendence, love, delicious food, and magic.
Oh! And pie. Baking pies is one of my favorite traditions each year… and spending a Jupiterian holiday with dear friends.
So, so grateful.
Oh! And look at those lights! What a project that was. Be careful getting on a ladder when Mars is squaring your Uranus. 🤪
#thanksgiving #pie #mercuryretrograde #gratitude #bestfriends #love #thanksgiving #thanks
“Because I could watch you for a single minute and find a thousand things that I love about you.”
Happy Birthday @davidyepiz
Today and every day, you are my everything.
