Tomasz Rola via Silklist wrote on 5/8/25 10:03 AM:> As long as we are
consistent enough to compose email, we are still
good, right?
What are you going to do when you can see the crisis looming, but it's
not quite here yet, and your daily life seems much as it was before?
That's not an abstract question for me.
You can use what little influence you have to try to change the bad
direction that things are heading.
You can do some prep, perhaps, some stocking up, but then what?
You can try despair, but that goes nowhere and is unpleasant while the
sun is still shining and the world is still largely a beautiful,
peaceful, and abundant place.
Eventually, I think, you come back to the place Huda is, the place the
great sages recommend. Be here now, be a force for good in the world in
whatever way you can, cherish the evanescent, lean into love as the best
way to counter evil.
I have never really believed that the prayers of a Quaker atheist do
anything in the external world, but they are grounding, and so I pray
for those who live in fear, for those who suffer, and for a better
future for all of humanity.
I came to the end of my flirtation with despair when I saw a young woman
wearing a necklace that said "Resist." Her small act of courage
heartened me, and probably others.
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