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Energy in Motion – interpersonally and politicallyAs a social scientist who has spent decades exploring multi-layered interpersonal nuances, and, as a technical salesperson who once designed hundreds of photovoltaic (solar) arrays and installed a few, I have a few things to say about Power. But at its most basic, Power is Energy in motion. Interpersonal power, political power, technical power, it is all energy in motion. Technically power is understood as potential for work over a specific period of time, but there is motion in an idle kilowatt or horsepower at rest. The interpersonal understanding of power is often understood as influence over time and, unlike technical power, gets quite convoluted when considered alongside myriad points along socialized identities such as education, ability, race, gender, and class. This week I read a peace piece (which is the only form of news I will read) by Roya Shariat, “You can’t say that, I’m Iranian” in which personal experience of calling out a general in the U.S. military for saying that a regime change in Iran was his New Year’s resolution, and important reflections about the current power vacuum in Iran created by the murder of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, are offered. https://wearethemeteor.com/you-cant-say-that-im-iranian/Such a power
I met someone on zoom (which is not at all like meeting them in real life, pre-COVID style) who admitted a similar disdain for Instagram (and social media). I felt joy in this shared sentiment; gratitude for their share. It’s nice to feel connected to each other. That night I had a dream about a stone couch on the steep side of a mountain. A smooth flow of water started pouring over it after I’d hefted a flat stone with a wedge base over the arm of the couch.
Possibilities in Time … with Food What is the right time for anything, for a thing to be said, felt, danced, built, destroyed, eaten? How does an individual decide a right time for a thing? Experimenting with time’s rightness or wrongness in the body – with the body’s feedback however vague or clear – is an invitation, a possibility.
2.5.25What a beautiful day! Yes, the sun is shining outside of my window making the thin covering of snow glow in its light. But the beauty I wish to celebrate is the special harmony and balance of this date – the fifth day of the second month in the twenty fifth year of this millennium.
Raising a family, caring for children day in and day out, growing deeply sensitive to their ever-changing needs, attending to nutritional, emotional, physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs, not to mention needs for adventure and expression, and raising a family well – in this ill society that grows increasingly sicker year after year – is the hardest job imaginable.
I’ve been an activist as long as I have been able to call myself a more or less well adjusted adult. Alongside one of my justice heroes Amy Goodman (who became my superstar in college for calling out corporate bullies), sits Josh Fox.
How have you experienced the Solidarity Economy? What does it mean to you? This past weekend I had the sweet and good for-tune of finding resonance with dozens of clearly vibrating humans at the annual Solidarity Economy Network festival in the fresh air Berkshires of Massachusetts. Day one was filled with loosely planned and elegantly facilitated workshops that included topics like Economics 4 Emancipation and activities like laughter yoga.
And maybe the second thing you think of could be the essence of what these two perennials are exchanging here? Can you see the love, the leaning in that happens when one wants to fully receive what the other, the beloved, is sharing?
the only love we know is the love we make. A TransFormation Plan is coming together.
