Below is Krista Tippett’s letter to the readers of The Pause. Lately I, too, have been thinking about how dependent our entire system is on the well-being of our bodies.
But where will we land, ultimately?
Will we have grown-up a bit as a result of Covid?
Will we have more open hearts and minds?
Will we address gun violence at last?
Will we dig deep to find emotionally mature intelligent men and women to lead of country?
Or will we continue to let our judgment slide because we’ve been emotionally scattered and shattered by the slap-in-the face realization we could die – soon.
How will we take that message forward?
Will we remain scared-silly about what we don’t control and turn inward, isolate and cling to cockamamie conspiracies to compensate for our newly realized lack of power… or will we be “better” for the experience?
Could we learn from it? And act more responsibly than we ever have… in gratitude for being alive.
As Krista asks: can we and will we care?