Community

There is a Mexican proverb than in essence says that a house is not built upon the ground but rather upon the woman at its heart.

We are women, we are mother, daughters, sisters, we are the givers of life.

Without us, a house is just a house. We are the heart that beats within, we are the soul that brings a place to life and enables it to grow into a home.

Without us there is less colour, less life, less soul, less vibrancy and less love. We are the ones that turn it into a home, whether it is a mansion, a small apartment, a trailer, a car, a cardboard box or a doorway. We are the ones who care, nurture, tend, love and protect our homes and those within them. It's what we must do.

It is also what we must do for our communities. We are just as much the heart of our community. We need to bring that life, love and nurturing to not only our homes but also to our wider community.

We must join together to breathe life into the community within which we live.  We must take it, shape it and nurture it, make it our own and help to create a strong, vibrant, living community for who live within it.

It is time to call on the memories of women of old, our mothers, and grandmothers, throughout time who did exactly that without even thinking about it. Community was a way of life for them, not something to work at or think about, simply something they did, every day. They were the beating heart not only of their families but also of their wider community.

It is time to assume the mantle that they bequeathed to us that was forgotten by progress and the advancement of civilization,  for if there was ever a time the world needed us to create community, that time may well be now.

Neighbours no longer know neighbours, families are scattered across the county and across the world. Community once had meaning, when joys, and tragedies, felt by one were felt and shared by all.

In many ways progress is a good thing, occasionally though there is a need to step back and recreate something from the past, in our own way, for our own time, and make it new and relevant again. It is time now to make community mean something again, not some vague ideal, rather a living breathing reality for the benefit of all who live there.

Hell in a handbasket

Time acceleration
Think of time as elastic. "The amount that has to be thought about and acted on in a short space doesn't seem to relate to actual clock time. Time is anything but static. Have you ever been in an accident? did you experience time slowing down as you had nanoseconds to respond? Everything becomes extra slow, allowing thoughts and actions 'time' to prevail. Or when you're totally engrossed in something, time seems to disappear."

Synchronicity
A person's experience of two or more events happening simultaneously that are unrelated by cause and effect but which occur in a significant manner.

When we are on the right path, even if we don't have a clue what that path is, when we are being true to ourselves, living authentic lives, synchronicities occur with increasing frequency.

Notes on the Tenth Insight, sequel to the Celestine Prophecy

"He was voicing the Fear."
"I think the danger is that a lot of people are beginning to believe it is happening."

Voicing the Fear, based on revelations, the End Times, and the 7 years of Tribulations that are supposed to follow the Rapture. - Earthquakes, rising sea levels, destruction of cities, economic crisis, rioting and crime.

any of that sound familiar or have you not been paying attention to what is going on in the world? And I don't mean the Rapture itself, I mean the world in general around us.

Thoughts are things, witches, Pagans, magic users and many others have known that for a long time. There could well be a great danger in a large number of people becoming convinced that the world is coming to an end in 2012, or whenever - if enough people hold to that belief then we might just bring it to pass as a self fulfilling prophecy.

There is too much going on right now for me not to accept that something is coming, something is going to happen. In 2012? maybe, maybe not.

http://www.dailyhotnews.org/323/2010-the-year-of-natural-disasters/

Not to mention all the other things potentially going wrong in the world right now, and for those who hold to such things whether with belief, interest or mere curiosity, 21 12 2012.

Earthquakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_earthquakes

Do I think the world is going to hell in a hand basket? yeah pretty much. Do I think the world will end? No. And not just because I refuse to buy into the Fear and create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Do I think the world as we know it might end/change? Yes I think it's a distinct possibility for oh so many reasons. There is too much going on right now in a shorter and shorter space of time, from natural disasters, to man made ones, to economic crisis, pandemics, to name some. for a start there are only so many disasters that relief agencies can deal with at any one time - especially since even when a disaster falls from the headlines, agencies are still working to help people survive, thrive and rebuild - it's just old news. Resources, both for disaster relief and generally, can only stretch so thin and so far. Eventually there will come a breaking point. Something has to give, more than it already has, given that the distribution of everything over the world is unfair already, else there wouldn't be millions of people starving and lacking clean water - but it's going to get worse.

Saudi Arabia is already running out of water having drained its non replenishable aquifer to the point where it will, in a few years, no long be growing any wheat for its population and will be importing it all based on oil money. But that wheat they import has to come from somewhere, and mean less wheat for other people....

I think something has to give, sooner or later. And if one thing, or country, goes under it's going to have a knock on effect that will reach all the way around this globalised world of ours. Maybe not today, Maybe not this year, maybe not in ten years, but it'll come. More and more people seem to be awakening to the idea that "something' is going on, that there are an increasing number of disasters, severe weather storms, heat waves, and everything else, that they are occurring with greater frequency and affecting almost every area of the world. No-one is immune from the possibility of something happening. Denial is not an option if we want a chance at a future, a better future.

Information and action are the antidotes to worry and fear.

fight the fear, don't feed it, don't let it paralyse, else the world that we fear might just come to pass. Back to thoughts are things that can take on a life of their own. Each of us has to find our own personal vision that sees beyond the Fear, and helps bring about a world worth living in afterwards if we do reach breaking point and face the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI)

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI could be in any one, or more of a large number of ways. However I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that me and mine survive whatever happens in the best way possible. Three words - Preparedness and sustainability. that, and Survival Mom's Credo http://thesurvivalmom.com/ - Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. More on that another time however.

Another quote from Survival Mom "As moms, I've just gotta be honest here, we don't have the luxury of denial. We can't afford to insist that the world isn't changing, that our world isn't changing. Denial and fear keep us from seeing other possibilities, other paths and venturing forward.

If the readers of this blog http://thesurvivalmom.com/ are still wearing blinders, I'd be surprised. Facing the future with boldness and a proactive attitude, requires wide-open eyes and courage, and what is preparedness if not facing the future and whatever it holds? "

Funnily I picked up that quote tonight after writing "Eyes wide open to all that is happening so that TEOTWAWKI does not catch us unawares - it will catch many people napping."

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Change is coming, resist it, fear it, deny it or be prepared and flow with it. Follow your own vision, live an authentic life and let the synchronicities flow. There's nothing wrong with covering your bases. There are plenty of good reasons to be prepared, even the government wants everyone to be prepared enough to look after themselves and their families for 72 hours in the event of an emergency, and do you really think in light of recent events in recent years like hurricane Katrina or the earthquake in Haiti that 72 hours would be long enough?

Earthquakes

I cannot be the only person keeping an eye on the number of earthquakes that have already taken place this year - in fact I know I'm not since when it has come up among friends they too admit to having noticed even if they paid no more than passing attention to it.

However for those who like to keep track of such things, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_earthquakes , although be warned it is not a complete list - just a very good one.

And there's a reason for adding this brief post that will eventually become clear, should anyone care.