Addiction writ large (none worse than our addiction to money the love of which darkens the whole planet) sickens everyone within the orbit and to at least six degrees of separation, essentially all of humanity. Heal it we must and will.

Love your neighbor ( that includes the ones we didn’t select) as we love ourselves; ferociously without end and watch the healing begin.

If everyone on this board does so we’ll heal the whole world in a year or two.

Start at home and don’t stop.

Loving another or many others, is the “why” behind the “how” we must endure.

It has sustained me through many dark hours evidenced by my posts.

Love someone or something enough and one can not be defeated.

They thought they’d finished me. They didn’t know how ferocious my mother is.

Now I’m still here and I love my children, all children, with same ferocity fueled by love and the suffering I have endured.

It is my secret weapon.

Let it be so for you as well.

Dig deep enough into grief and see it reborn as love filling the same space one and the same.

The only risk is I sometimes want to be consumed by its embrace. Then my children whisper “daddy you promised”

That’s my purpose.