"How do you get from here to there? What do you do?"
~ Sesame Street Song
Do you remember this sweet, simple tune?
While it's meant to teach little ones about modes of transportation - from using your own feet to taking a bus, a train, and a plane - the refrain of this song came to mind yesterday as I was working on a book focused on hope.
Specifically, I was writing about small shifts that may bring us closer to a state of
understanding and harmony that does not yet exist, but is possible.
How do we get from here - this state of intense divisiveness that we are in right now - to there? What do we do?
Let's begin by imagining it.
Picture as best you can: peace, respect, kindness and all our highest ideals
put into practice.
Patti Paris reminds us that we first have to conceive the idea. Then we have to embrace it as possible.
"It's only when we begin to embrace what is possible that it can become possible. The idea for the light bulb came before the light bulb. The idea for the polio vaccine came before the vaccine. And the idea for our greater expression of life must come before the actual expression," she says.
May we
believe.
With faith, hope, and love,
Charlene
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