Well, let’s just say we all have regrets and most of us know that those regrets, as excruciating as they can be, are the things that help us lead improved lives. Or, rather, there are certain regrets that, as they emerge, can accompany us on the incremental bettering of our lives. Regrets are forever floating to the surface, don’t you find? They require our attention. You have to do something with them. One way is to seek forgiveness by making what might be called living amends, by using whatever gifts you may have in order to help rehabilitate the world.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan
Instead, growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden, transforming the plants by fostering relationships, trust, skills, community accountability, and healing. It requires cultivating new habits internally, seeding restorative ways of being together interpersonally, uprooting practices of inequality institutionally, and planting alternative possibilities structurally. If we only concentrate on our internal work while ignoring the fires burning all around us, we’ll eventually be consumed. But if we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out.
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin
In dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times
- Bertolt Brecht
Mark Carrigan 