{"id":2480,"date":"2022-12-01T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:25:47","slug":"dezember-2022-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2022\/12\/01\/dezember-2022-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"december 2022 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

hard times\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

I have to find a way to balance our troubled world with my own optimism, joy and obligations.
\n\u00a0Patti Smith<\/em><\/p>\n

The pandemic and the brutal war in the Ukraine have thrown us off track. Life has become expensive. In America, some madman mows down innocent people at least once a week. Women around the world are the targets of male violence, underreported cases the rule. Excess mortality everywhere, especially in battered nature. Not that everything was better before; we know what ails and offends us and have fewer illusions about who we are and what we are capable of.
\nChristmas is just around the corner, despite everything a reason to rejoice. Our family decided a few years ago that we only give presents to the children. I do not adhere to it: the adults are my children too, as are their partners, by proxy.
\nAs for gifts, since the verdict against the adults, I rely on natural produce. For my grandson, who has a talent for pottery, I asked the potter down the street if he can spend an afternoon with her, and if she\u2019ll fire his creations for him. One third of the family is abroad this year. I had my gifts delivered there \u2013 unfortunately not in kind, but something for the entire stirp. I’m still looking for gifts for a teenage girl and for a young woman. Anyone can just buy stuff.
\nI am grateful that we are healthy, that we love each other (with occasional exceptions) and that we may enjoy the celebration of the returning light in peace and safety this year too.
\nRemembering people who are not as fortunate as we are, is just as much a part of our Christmas as a hopefully successful big meal (I am the cook this year) and, most of all, the joy of being together.<\/p>\n

Restoratively Yours
\nSusanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. You’ll find us at the Gaia Lounge, Hochstrasse 70 in Basel (near Basel SBB main station,\u00a0 tram stop Peter Merian) every Thursday afternoon from 14 – 18 h. Welcome!<\/p>\n

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lost in the forest<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
\nand lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:
\nmaybe it was the voice of the rain crying,
\na cracked bell, or a torn heart.Something from far off it seemed
\ndeep and secret to me, hidden by the earth,
\na shout muffled by huge autumns,
\nby the moist half-open darkness of the leaves.Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig
\nsang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance
\nclimbed up through my conscious mind<\/p>\n

as if suddenly the roots I had left behind
\ncried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood
\nand I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0Pablo Neruda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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