Society Evolves

Dear UnCommon Women ~ I am struggling to post today’s Weekly Wellness Guide. Discussing politics or religion is not my purpose here. But. In the face of yet another horrific mass slaying in an American church, of innocent people, beautiful, generative, contributing people, in their home of worship, I cannot pretend to be unaffected, or ignorant.

I call us UnCommon Women deliberately, and proudly. I want to be part of a global movement of joyful acceptance – more, joyful EMBRACING of each other, in all our magnificent diversity. Every one of us is unique and irreplaceably valuable. I am aware that I am very under-informed about cultures different from my own home culture, and I work hard to always be respectfully curious and interested, respectfully informed and informing.

Each of us suffering the sense of being different because of our high-androgen, glucose-crazy physiology, has some insight into each others’ oppression and rejection experiences. Fear of The Other is a deep-rooted, ancient reactivity that makes certain sense as an ancestral defense. However, we don’t need that separation any more. Not only do we not need it, but at this Time in human history, there is not a single act of violence that doesn’t harm more than it protects.

We simply do not HAVE to think of each other as The Other any more. Science has proven unequivocally that there is only one, single human race. We are one family. We are in this together. Science has proven it and there is not a single religion that does not also make clear that love and acceptance of each other is what the Divine, regardless of the name given it, holds out as our highest purpose. The details are different but the basic message is the same. Love is the answer.

I suppose these terrorist acts of violence are actually a sign of how much we are successfully embracing and co-mingling and peacefully enjoying each other across cultures. Something like how in microcosm, a woman finally growing the inner strength to leave an abusive marriage is at greatest risk of violence from a battering spouse, we are now inflicted by the ones too fearful to grow themselves. The threat imposed by the thrashing of the dying dinosaur’s tail is real and dangerous.

Thank you for reading this far. Thank you for taking excellent care of your irreplaceable, precious, beautiful self. Thank you for loving your children and teaching them to love each other. Thank you for the care and curiosity and interest and sharing and patience and love you give to each other. All blessings, always