The Shift is Real
How vibes can turn the probable into the possible
There’s been a palpable shift in the energy. Not just Biden to Kamala, though that’s part of it. Or Trump’s near miss from a bullet — though that was certainly a spectacularly enacted transmutation of life-threatening danger into a reification of his most essential life energy. Even for him, it was a way of hitting bottom and experiencing a turnaround.
The covid crisis is still here, but it’s a little different now. Those of us who remain cautious still mask on the planes and in crowded places and then hope for the best, but we’re no longer in a reality where most people who get it end up on a ventilator. And kids are playing again. They’re going back to school to face their mostly typical challenges.
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The Middle East is still a total mess, but I think everyone at least knows it is now? It feels as if fewer people are on the extremes. Fewer voices are arguing that people of one religion or the other must be wiped out or exiled, and seemingly everyone knows the violence is political, unnecessary, and about neither liberation nor security.
