Roll Up Your Sleeves

It’s a new day only if we make it so.  Clear thinking, less words and more action are essential.  Love is imperative. 

The finger pointing must end – from all angles, because if you haven’t noticed there are more than two sides to this nightmare.  Somehow and by some grace we are being given another chance to make the promises of this nation manifest.

The word nation refers to people that populate a land and hold things in common. For us to be a nation we must do some house keeping and some healing.

For us to be a nation will require an honest acknowledgement of our treatment of Native Peoples since the beginning. It will demand our recognition of systemic racism and our deliberate eradication of it.  It will force us to undo the legacy of classism, which is allowing the pandemic to take the most vulnerable among us.

For us to be a nation, we will need to honor the land we walk on, the air we breathe and the water so essential to life. We will need to surge ahead ending our use of fossil fuels and do all we can to protect the earth.

For us to be a nation, we must care for the least of us. There’s no need for hunger or for people to be without shelter. Our food systems have drifted into industrialization. The true cost for this has been our diminished health. Yet the solutions are simple and present. We can grow food. We can help one another. The earth can feed and shelter all of us. 

For us to be a nation, we cannot rely on any one man, woman or vaccine. We are sovereign human beings coming together for the common good.

Roll up your sleeves. There’s work ahead.