teddy bear

What good does be­ing dis­turbed by hu­man­i­ty do … ?

I’ve al­ways felt it, as ear­ly as kinder­garten, when I saw these boys trap and stomp a lizard to death on pur­pose.

And even ear­li­er than that, be­gan a life­long sense that I wasn’t FROM here, didn’t re­al­ly want to be here.

I’ve strug­gled in­ter­nal­ly as the world has grown more bizarre, ar­ti­fi­cial, and im­bal­anced in my life­time, and mean­while count my­self amongst the rel­a­tive­ly small group of peo­ple who see what’s hap­pen­ing and un­der­write their every­day habits with knowl­edge of their ef­fect on the plan­et, each oth­er, and all liv­ing be­ings.

In the last few months es­pe­cial­ly, I am work­ing with the pow­er of grief as a tool, and know that right­eous anger can be used for good – both are dri­ving forces if you’re in­ten­tion­al about them.

So what, with the ca­pa­bil­i­ties of our gi­gan­tic, tran­scen­dent, in­fi­nite­ly pow­er­ful minds, are we do­ing?

How are we liv­ing, eat­ing, breath­ing, re­cal­i­brat­ing, re­bal­anc­ing, re­ground­ing, cleans­ing, heal­ing … ?

I know we’re all tired. But find­ing the an­swers to these ques­tions is a bet­ter use of en­er­gy than ab­sorb­ing the dis­tur­bia.

Feel the grief of what we’ve done and where we’re at, and let it change you.

I am sor­ry, chil­dren, for the dam­age done dur­ing the wait.
 

 

—ruby roth

Flom­mist Ruby Roth is an artist, de­sign­er, cre­ative strate­gist, and the au­thor-il­lus­tra­tor of four lead­ing books for kids. Her work has been fea­tured on To­day, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC News, and oth­er ma­jor me­dia out­lets. Copy­right © 2022 Ruby Roth.

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