Welcome to Episode 8 of Becoming a True Human: Let’s Do Something Positive

Dave Kopacz & Chris Smith talk about different ways of transforming pain into passion in a discussion ranging from the poetry of Mirabai, the life and teachings of St. Francis, creating pockets of positivity, building caring communities, taking charge of your story, Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, making sure our actions are motivated by caring and uncaring, how fear can be the first shift from caring to a slippery slope of uncaring, and lastly noodling as a metaphor for life.

We offer a range of things that you can do right now to do something positive and shift from shock to action: reading and sharing quotes, different writing practices, building community, finding any of the “hundred objects close by” that can “cure sadness,” and canning tomatoes or apricots. Remember, “Don’t waste your suffering” and let’s all work at creating reservoirs of goodness – we are going to need them!

One more thing you can do positive, right now – go to the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and contact congrees to reauthorize the Lorna Breeen Act to improve health care worker well-being and to prevent suicide https://drlornabreen.org/reauthorizelba/

A Hundred Objects Close By

Mirabai (translated by Daniel Landinsky)

I know a cure for sadness:
Let your hands touch something that
makes your eyes
smile.

I bet there are a hundred objects close by
that can do that.

Look at
beauty’s gift to us─
her power is so great she enlivens
the earth, the sky, our
soul.

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