Showing Up

Attention is the beginning of devotion,” the poet Mary Oliver wrote in her final collection of essays.  We are entering the Darwin Awards since our lack of attention destroying future prospects.  Showing up insure our grandchildren's well being is our number one priority.

Never in our history have we more distractions and less wisdom.  While never has more brilliant people lived right now our collective behavior is more mindless than ever.  This is an age of intellectual dishonesty and emotional disability since we ignore our reckless ignorance.

Without some honest evaluation of how we can best focus on our future by lessening our impact our very existence will be in question.

Awakening to the shortages of fresh water, food and excess people are just of the few indicators of such a conclusion.  Other ecological and economic circumstances support that in years to come sustaining humans will be increasingly dismal.

Given such a bleak future picture how can each of us cultivate greater attention and less distraction?   While it is difficult to accept our destructive trajectory we must concentrate to a better situation.  Acting so to add not subtract we reap a richer world.

Wisdom is about acting with virtue.  To celebrate our highest spirit conscious awakening is required. Let's devote ourselves to show up and leave this place the best we can.