Grounding Our Shared Future
Rerooting Community & Rerouting the Future
“I’ve never seen a tree grow from the top down.” ~ @guruth
‘“To destroy a people,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted acidly, “you must sever their roots.” The wretched of the earth, as Frantz Fanon called them, have been shorn of any ideological or cultural cohesion. They are cut off from their past. They live in crushing poverty, numbing alienation, hopelessness and often terror. Mass culture feeds them the tawdry, the violent, the salacious and the ridiculous. They are rising up against these forces of modernization, driven by an atavistic fury to destroy the technocratic world that condemns them.’ ~ Christopher Hedges, “The Age of Anger” Nation of Change
By understanding our histories and respectfully listening to the those of others, we, as a global people, can not only withstand any disruption, but also grow stronger — together — into a shared future.
Now is the time to activate our Awareness, Wisdom and Empathy (AWE) and root deeply to draw upon our shared humanity to co-create a story of the world that, like all healthy ecosystems, thrives on diversity.
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From my own history…
My ancestors are Celtic, Viking, Gypsy, French, German, Swedish and a bit of the Great Lakes Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi. I was born at home in London England with the help of a National Health Service midwife, a common practice for the time. This makes me the immigrant daughter of an immigrant father. And I’m also a legacy member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I was born into complexity.
No matter what our birth story, we are born into a shared future. We are part of a long history which is vulnerable to memories and patterns that are beyond us, but still hold us intimately in thought, word and deed. We are here to share our gifts and receive from others, this is part of our shared human story. Our histories are our own, but our future belongs to each other. And the greatest freedom we have is that of creating, sharing and living our story together. Now more than ever, this is the time and place for us to bring our natural gifts and imperfect stories forward. Because the world needs all our dreams.
Suggested Reading:
- Waking the Global Heart — Anodea Judith
- Designing Regenerative Cultures — Daniel Christian Wahl
- A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet & the Destiny of the Western World — Peter Kingsley
