Doesn't the world feel very strange right now?
Does it feel like there's a growing bubble of frustration and overwhelm that is about to burst?
How much longer can we take with the cost of living?
The cost of housing?
Food?!
How much longer can you endure this?
Everyone has a breaking point. Every. one.
Sustainability is a term that has been tossed about for over 20 years.
Don't you think we've hit the unsustainable place?
Look at the tents of homeless people.
Cost of bread - some places hovering around $10/loaf - for locally crafted (so much for "buy local to be sustainable").
I remember the words of my dear, late friend John K - who said some 15 years ago - just wait until we become like Venezuela - where bread is $10 a loaf.
John - we've hit it. Wherever you are, I'm pretty sure you're shaking your head - likely even grateful you got out of here before the you know what hit the fan.
Yep. We're there.
Question is: Where is all this going?
It's making a lot of people focus only on thyself.
I get that. So many of us in survival mode. I'm there. Makes it hard for me to focus on anyone else but myself and my child. Mind and body can't take in the problems and challenges of anyone else - not when I'm already done filled up with my own stuff.
$10 loaf of bread.
How did this happen? And again - where is it all going?
Does anyone care enough to do anything about it? What CAN we do about it? Just live out our lives - hope we don't lose what meager things we already have - and focus on thyself - pass out of this realm and hope our children will be able to survive and hopefully thrive? Although considering what I read about interest rates - if they drop later in the year this will push the housing market to go sky-high.
Another recipe for disaster. More homelessness. More poverty. More people in crisis.
A recipe for absolute disaster. For people who get desperate do desperate things. Here in my area - theft is common. Homeless people - stealing food and supplies to survive. Can't say I blame them. I understand. Many locals though certainly don't and want them punished.
While I - as always - usually alone or quite alone in my thinking - just want them housed and loved.
Wanting us ALL housed. And loved. And part of a real organic system that supports and ensures this.
For now - we're in this dystopian like reality that feels weird and foreign.
Praying if there is anything truly Divine out there - it pops inside this little bubble and performs some miracles.
We all need it.
Love,
Victoria
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