Marianne.com offers many cool ideas, but some touch topics may need fine tuning (forgiveness of killers and abusers...best not done in person)
My FB post on Marianne's FB page today, May 19, 2017 at the ripe age of 54 as of Mother's Day 2017). My condolences too to all involved in the Times Square tragedy of a miltary vet many high on pot laced with something ending the life of a young woman from Michigan and injuring about 20 others. May each be healed and the lovely young woman of 18 years be remembered as a heroine of a special sort, living her life and braving waking us all up to our mortality. I was reading Marc Anthony's book Never Letting Go so that may be helpful for others to look up on youtube (any good medium promotes a sense of healing eventually for all parties who cross over even if a sudden or difficult transition and meeting with other loved ones on the Other Side. Let's hold them in prayer for a few moments now. Peace, love, forgiveness, and healing...light, energy, hope and connection...
I enjoyed the talk on your upcoming program on Aging gracefully (and being filled with ever more inner light and wisdom regardless of our physical forms), Marianne Williamnson of marianne.com, and offer some ideas along those lines on my blog, livfully.org. I have promoted a concept of Acorns to Oaks Team Outreach (A-2020) as a way to grow together in wisdom, kindness, health, talent, friendship and safety. I recently put together ideas for a Turtle Garden Circle of Friends outreach.
I made a Turtle Garden Permaculture Game also which can be used to design an array of projects, such as a small garden (10-20 feet in diameter or across( in the shape of a turtle with four legs to extend the planting area) and the head and tail formed from logs or smooth rocks or bricks in the ground for the access pathways.
Teams or individuals could play this game and work through making schematic plans while learning about working with nature and being a part of it, not apart from it. Implementing the actual garden as a school, library, faith or other group or personally are all options too, but not needed to enjoy the concepts shared.
The head could be a small rounded mound of earth, logs or rocks or other planting also a short 'neck's worth' distance away. I share this since we need to reconnect with our sense of enjoying nature, the earth we share with one heart united with values of caring and sharing, and with one another along those lines as well.
These themes you touched upon in the few talks I've been able to hear (including the night Donald Trump got elected as POTUS. I had the first question and I'm pretty sure you mentioned the acorn's potential and power as akin to a person's efforts or being...so I appreciate that whenever you said it.)
I have a piece called Remembering Kaelan Alexander which explores the very challenging situation of bidding our teen a sudden earthly farewell when he was lost in the HoUSAtonic River in CT on his last day of his freshman year of high school on June 16.2009. There are many practical points we likely could all work to help more people stay in the game of life longer and with the laws of love and nature working for us not against us.
Thanks for the many programs. I did have some concerns about the matter Bernadette and then you shared. I hope to send you a letter soon if I can find the email. Basically not giving someone's identity away without more due consideration may be a good policy for many more to heed whether related or not.
Then the matter of saying the courts often let violent criminals get off with a light sentence , while too true, may work to give some unbalanced minds the idea to do as they please and pay a light penalty. The Light Penalty however really is one they will likely pay in full (and maybe have done to them what they did to another.) Likely Not Meeting With a Person Who Killed Someone would make sense for anyone, especially Bernadette.
Her needs likely include being able to accept that some broken people 'cannot be fixed' to the point of interacting with them in a personal, direct manner, especially not face to face.
Some skilled mediators could relay a message or mostly ask him if he want to share something with her if she were interested or open to hearing from him, but not saying whether that were the case
Knowing She Cannot Trust Anything to Necessarily be True coming from him is key. Most abusers could win an Oscar for their performances at work, around their kids in public and of course their personal fan clubs, But that does not mean they are that way in their hearts or over time.
They may even fool themselves until the next outburst or violation...and then the refrain of 'It was your fault. You made me do it, It just happened," rings out again. See Lundy Bancroft, Barry Goldstein and other key advocates to learn personal safety.
The big heads up from that question was to Wake Up All Women and Others who may be abused (or were in the past and don't understand the lifelong risk factors... see the bigger picture?) Thanks again and of course, all the best to you and all on this healing, and yes, forgiving, path
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