Christmas in the time of COVID: Let Love and Kindness be Your Everlasting Gifts
- Kamran Mofid
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There is a world beyond the pandemic and the lockdown. It's time to come up with a hopeful and positive vision
The Time is Now to Lead with the Power of Kindness, Compassion, Gratitude, Purpose, Humanity,
and Humility to Make the World a Better Place
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Once the World Was Perfect
Joy Harjo - 1951-
Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world.
Then we took it for granted.
Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind.
Then Doubt pushed through with its spiked head.
And once Doubt ruptured the web,
All manner of demon thoughts
Jumped through—
We destroyed the world we had been given
For inspiration, for life—
Each stone of jealousy, each stone
Of fear, greed, envy, and hatred, put out the light.
No one was without a stone in his or her hand.
There we were,
Right back where we had started.
We were bumping into each other
In the dark.
And now we had no place to live, since we didn’t know
How to live with each other.
Then one of the stumbling ones took pity on another
And shared a blanket.
A spark of kindness made a light.
The light made an opening in the darkness.
Everyone worked together to make a ladder.
A Wind Clan person climbed out first into the next world,
And then the other clans, the children of those clans, their children,
And their children, all the way through time—
To now, into this morning light to you.
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And Now Hopefully We Can Make the World Perfect Again with the Power of our Love, Compassion, and Humanity
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