Plant Lavender

Freedom is not about politics. Freedom is the ability to shift attention from the mind to the heart, from the dark second-hand imagery of suffering fed to us by the world and its media, to the first-hand radiance of our inner Source. You can feast on conflict, or you can feast on joy. Which feast will nourish you? Which will make you a lover? 

Turn off the teeth-gnashing chatter of news, turn off the axe-grinding political talk. Go outside, dip your fingers in the earth, pick blackberries, plant lavender. 

Yes, in our compassion, we constantly remind ourselves of all who suffer. But for our sanity, we might also remind ourselves of the millions upon millions of people who, in this very moment, do not suffer, but heroically perform the anonymous human sacraments of the commonplace, each illuminated by the quiet miracle of their own smile.