What Could Go Right? Don't Freak Out. Show Up.
Friday, Nov 8, 2024
This evening, I’d like to share with you the website of a news platform I discovered yesterday thanks to my friend Nancy O. (Thanks, Nancy!) It’s called The Progress Network, and you can follow the entire newsletter, get their emails, or . . . just . . . read this article. It was a breath of fresh air for me in a L-O-N-G, sad, despair-ridden week. This was very good news to read, with a very strong message to remember. The title of the article, linked below and written by the fabulous Emma Varvaloucas, is titled:
What Could Go Right? Don’t Freak Out. Show Up.
Here’s an excerpt with some good news and a reminder that I know I myself needed to hear:
As the final note on this edition’s “steady on” song, the American election is not the only thing that happened this week. Rwanda has its Marburg outbreak under control, nearly 500,000 currently stateless people belonging to minority ethnic groups in Thailand will receive permanent residency and nationality, and as Americans were voting on Tuesday, the Japanese were sending the world’s first wooden satellite into space.
The world keeps spinning on its axis. And we keep choosing how to respond to the good and the bad.
—Emma Varvaloucas (last two paragraphs of the article referenced above)
Take a look. And have a restful weekend. Talk to you Monday.