BLACK FRIDAY...

...and the Honorable Harvest

It is Black Friday, a holiday for some of us when we recover from the banquets of Thanksgiving Day. Readjusting the black blindfolds under which we have been operating, we renew addictive spree-buying to sustain the oligarchs.

Have we been accustomed to the heels of our oppressors for so long that we are benumbed to continue to fuel that experience with our resources?

One day, maybe we will realize that we are working to our own demise in a consumptive society. We will realize that all the unnecessary consumption works to increase global warming, water pollution, deforestation, depletion of natural resources, degradation of our environment, and the power of our current unfettered capitalist oppressors while decreasing our wellbeing.

May we look forward to a Free Friday, blindfolds-free, when we will set out to build a compassionate world in which all the creatures on the planet thrive, including ourselves.

From the Honorable Harvest:

Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life. Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer. Never take the first. Never take the last. Take only what you need. Take only that which is given. Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm. Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken. Share. Give thanks for what you have been given. Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

May we move away from waging war and focus on justice and peace. And may we soon see the un-redacted documents of the Epstein Child-trafficking investigation.

Remove your blindfolds, behold the oppressors, and joyfully speak truth to power.

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