My Mom used to say: If you don't have anything nice to say,

Don't say anything at all.

Well, Mom.

Your positivity shined through

The murk of my troubled heart all those years.

I don't remember you saying anything negative.

But when I read this today:

I imagined you turning your pained eyes to me

As if to say, "Say something".

Truth is, I stopped following Mom's "Pollyanna" advice decades ago

But I needed her to believe in her own teaching.

See what I'm saying?

I needed her to stay positive.

And that she did.

For all the years of my growing up

She held space for my beleaguered heart.

But if this is truly a world where

Feeding people is a crime

Then I know a lot of criminals

Who will not mend their ways.

And my mother was the worst offender.

Maybe even a terrorist.

If she says, "Say something"

I'll be damned if I don't.

And what I'm going to say is,

Maybe we're all damned if we don't!

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.bbc.com/news/world-68710515

The news of the Israeli military murder of some of the staff of the World Central KItchen really felt like a punch below the belt. Sacred lines are always crossed in war. That is to be expected; it's the nature of the beast. But the cold blooded murder of people who are there to feed a starving population, even though also not new, was like the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I am having my own back problems these days and am feeling vulnerable, so this story caught me off guard. I couldn't deflect it, but thought about my mother, one of the most positive people I have ever known. I could picture her, in the spirit realm, looking perplexed. Here is what I think is going on: This story clobbered me, in the second and third chakra, below my heart, the energetic center where I am connected to my birth, my origin, my mother. All those years my Mother fed me, she never asked for anything in return except to grow and thrive. So I can really picture her being upset by this cold-blooded murder. Israel must be held accountable. I can't resist saying that if feeding people is a crime then my mother would have been a terrorist, because she fed us selflessly until the day we could feed ourselves. Feeding people is sacred work. If you murder someone who is feeding starving people I am quite sure that you will pay, karmically, for that is a crime of crimes. I know this because I register it in my 2nd and 3rd chakras and chakras do not lie.