Today I’m wishing you all a happy belated
May Day or Mayday (if you’re feeling distress)
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. — Wikipedia
I’m hoping that like me you are celebrating the arrival of May, all of the green popping out everywhere, and the beautiful weather we’ve been having.
But if you are feeling distress and overwhelm because of the worldwide pandemic I’m here to hear your Mayday call. If you are struggling, please reach out to someone near or far who can listen without judgment. It is so important to be heard and held in loving compassion.
Most days I feel blessed and grateful and even feel a bit guilty for enjoying this time so much. Let me be clear, I don’t enjoy the restrictions and all of the disruption this virus is causing. However, I am enjoying using my stay-at-home time to nourish my body and soul through rest and creativity. And I am working hard to stay present and grateful for what IS good in life right now.
Grateful for the view in my backyard this morning — geese, wood ducks, and mallards beside the pond
But frequently the reality of all those who are suffering, hungry, jobless, grieving, and afraid hits me. And I feel uncertainty about how we will return to “normal life” and what that normal life will be like. I feel as if the entire world is at a crucial turning point.
Which way will we turn?
Will it be more of the same old mindless consumption and wreckage of the environment and a growing divide between the haves and the have-nots? Or will we move from emergency to emergence?
Will we shift power from profit-maximizing corporations to self-organizing, self-reliant, life-serving communities? And will we embrace a regenerative way of life instead of continuing to wreak havoc on the earth?
We don’t know what future we will live into. But each of can make choices.
The coronavirus situation provides an opportunity for all of us to pause, reset, and step up. COVID-19, like any disruption, essentially confronts each of us with a choice: (1) to freeze, turn away from others, only care for ourselves, or (2) to turn toward others to support and comfort those who need help. That choice between acting from ego or acting from ecosystem awareness is one that we face every day, every hour, every moment. The more the world sinks into chaos, desperation, and confusion, the greater our responsibility to radiate presence, compassion, and grounded action confidence. — Otto Scharmer, Eight Emerging Lessons: From Corona virus to Climate Action
May you feel joy and gratitude today and every day.
May you walk in beauty.
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