February 19, 2025
Hard times require
furious dancing.
One month into this fascist regime and it’s clear we have already lost the world we knew. And while we now see that this loss has been coming for decades, the brutality of its arrival is staggering. And we are feeling lost. Yet is for us to hold fast to our values and visions and begin the dance of renewal. We must find the music. We must find the steps.
I have faith that we will. I have faith in the power of our dancing.
Beannacht,
Judith
Ursula Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative and science fiction. Writing more than twenty novels and one hundred short stories, her work was influenced by cultural anthropology, Taoism, feminism, and the writings of Carl Jung. She became ancestor in 2018.
Great wisdom from Le Guin regarding having lost in order to find. And the theme of dance, elevated by you both, sounds refreshing as well as rescuing. For renewal, as you say, find the music and the steps.
And we are fortunate that we don’t really have to create the music or the steps. Handed down by the ancestors. Handed to us by our spiritual traditions. Perhaps we need only to pick up the instruments.