The wildflowers are just popping up in this high mountain dessert, on a small hillside in the center of town, not yet touched by a bulldozer. Tiny reminders of growth against the odds.

Between the moments of this pandemic’s expanded space, we can choose to focus our energy on sustaining our health, relationships, and environment, prompting new cycles of nourishing creation. This is Love embodied.

Or, we might find ourselves immersed in judgement (of others’ beliefs, others’ choices, others’ actions), which not only stunts growth, but perpetuates division and hate. Judgement is an infectious byproduct of Fear.

It is an act of radical social action to refuse ideas that encourage separation.