Muhammad was born approximately 570 CE in Mecca.[1] He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father Abdullah was the son of Quraysh tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, and he died a few months before Muhammad’s birth. His mother Amina died when he was six, leaving Muhammad an orphan.[7] He was raised under the care of his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, and paternal uncle, Abu Talib.[8] In later years, he would periodically seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer. When he was 40, Muhammad reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave[1][9] and receiving his first revelation from God. In 613,[10] Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly,[11] proclaiming that “God is One“, that complete “submission” (islām) to God[12] is the right way of life (dīn),[13] and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to the other prophets in Islam.[14][15][16]
Muhammad’s followers were initially few in number, and experienced hostility from Meccan polytheists for 13 years. To escape ongoing persecution, he sent some of his followers to Abyssinia in 615, before he and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina (then known as Yathrib) later in 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. In December 629, after eight years of intermittent fighting with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The conquest went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed. In 632, a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, he fell ill and died. By the time of his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam.[17][18]
The revelations (each known as Ayah – literally, “Sign [of God]”) that Muhammad reported receiving until his death form the verses of the Quran, regarded by Muslims as the verbatim “Word of God” on which the religion is based. Besides the Quran, Muhammad’s teachings and practices (sunnah), found in the Hadith and sira (biography) literature, are also upheld and used as sources of Islamic law (see Sharia).
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Inspired by Erik Hoel’s post on making good predictions for 2050 I thought I’d take a crack at it. As we are all to some extent regional thinkers., and most predictions for the 2050s I’ve read have generally been from Americans, I thought I’d be upfront about my regional (British) perspective and focus on my predictions for Britain in the 2050s.
As Erik pointed out in his piece, the 2050s are not as far away as they sound. Being 28 years away, predicting the future world of 2050 is the same challenge as predicting today’s world in 1992. I’m 29, so I don’t remember 1992, but I do remember a time when my household didn’t have mobile phones, a computer, or the internet.
Other than that technological side of life, most things remain strikingly similar: housing, school, average wages (adjusted for inflation), the % of time we spend working, and how we get around all have changed only somewhat and are not so radically different as to seem alien to someone from 1992 transported to today. We don’t have flying cars or robot butlers, and we don’t live in blade runner.
So here are my predictions for what 2050s Britain will be like:
The built environment of most of Britain will look the same as it does now.
When we envision the future, we often think either of a dystopian collapse or of drastically new urban forms. Usually, everything is made of some mystery white material for some reason, often there’s lots of green around, and everything looks very high tech. Basically some version of this:
My very boring prediction for Britain in 2050 is that for most people in most places it will look like this:
Laws that prevent building on the green belt will broadly remain in place thanks to a collation of NIMBY and ‘environmentalist’ interests. (Environmentalist is here in air-quotes because preserving the green belt is often confused as being a pro-environment choice but if you care about the environment at a global level then green belt preservation is not helpful. More on this inherent tension later.)
Many cities will of course see considerable development, but they will not become futuristic looking. Most of the main landmarks of our cities are already protected or would become protected if anyone threatened to change them, and most of the urban environment we will inhabit in 2050 has already been built. Where I live, the council wanted to make some sensible changes to a roundabout to improve pedestrian safety, and local residents fought it tooth and nail, claiming it was an ‘iconic roundabout’. If it takes years of consultation just to try to change a dangerous roundabout to an intersection, then I don’t see us significantly re-configuring our urban fabric by 2050.
If you could time travel into the London, Leeds or Manchester in 2050, you’d probably not notice the difference save for maybe some public realm improvements and maybe a few more new residential skyscrapers in the background.
The housing crisis will become more acute- NIMBY Vs YIMBY will be a major political divide.
Very much due to the NIMBY forces identified previously that mean the urban fabric won’t change much, Britain’s housing crisis will likely continue to get worse over the next 28 years, to the point where the majority of people will never own a home. This is fundamentally due to Britain continuing to not build enough housing, due to a web of planning restrictions and laws that make housebuilding ever more difficult.
Economic growth (in-large part driven by AGI, which I’ll get onto), especially in the high productivity golden triangle of London, Cambridge and Oxford will mean higher salaries, which will drive a bidding war of house prices ever higher in these areas. Counterintuitively, it will be hardest to build housing where it is most needed (Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Desirable parts of suburban London) so the areas that currently have the highest prices already 2022 will see the largest rises. This is because wealthy-home owners are best able to work the system to prevent housebuilding in their areas.
Growth does not have to translate into higher house prices, but when supply is constrained, it inevitably will.
The growing % of the population that are not homeowners will represent a majority, but as their interests are geographically diffuse (they want lower prices, but have no strong incentive to back an individual development at a local level) they will struggle to make a big enough impact to bring annual housebuilding numbers up high enough to reverse the housing price rises.
Artificial intelligence will make a huge impact on the Labour market, but government intervention/rules will dampen this.
So far these predictions have be dull. Speculating that the future will hardly differ from the present.
One area I do expect genuinely massive change is progress in Artificial Intelligence.
Advances like GPT-3 and DALL-E are showing that AI threatens white-collar more than blue-collar work, which rather inverts the trends of the last 50 years, where technology has reduced the value/bargaining power of manual labour relative to ‘knowledge work’. AI is probably mere years away from replacing significant numbers of routine knowledge workers, and within a 10–15 year time frame as it gets drastically better it seems likely to be transformative. Self-driving vehicles, whilst slower to roll out than initially predicted will also become the norm in this time frame. We could be a long way from an AI plumber, but essentially any job that requires expertise in a purely informational sense, rather than a practical one, will be able to be done by AI.
Certain high-status professions that are well connected and organised will be able to protect themselves via credentials that AI cannot attain. Architects, Doctors, Barristers, Professors etc. are likely to keep their jobs despite AI being able to do them. They will have AI assistants that are able to make their lives much easier. However, a great many white-collar jobs that are not so connected/organised such as software developers, salespeople, administrative staff, graphic designers etc. will be completely replaced by AI.
But what does that mean for how we will experience society?
The destruction of vast numbers of jobs by AI will make the creation of jobs both very politically popular and more politically feasible (because AI will increase growth and concentrate profits, giving more tax revenue).
Lots of people will therefore work doing jobs that could easily be automated away by AI. The % of people employed by the government will rise and parties’ manifestos will try to out-bid each other on how many jobs they can create, even though said jobs don’t really need doing. They’ll probably be a roughly left-right political divide between pro-UBI parties (left) who think you may as well just give people money and let them do what they want and those who say that UBI leads to idleness and vice and causes social problems and so it’s better to pay people to do jobs that give them some purpose (right).
Jobs will be less important for conferring money, but will become more important for conferring status. Therefore people will still work hard and be highly competitive to get into desirable high-status jobs (e.g. journalists), even though their salary may be negligible.
Lots of people in fundamentally pointless jobs that could be done by AI will feel a great sense of ennui and long for a time when work actually needed doing. They’ll be an AI backlash but it will mostly be hot air, as AI will overall make us richer and we won’t want to go back, just like there’s a techlash now but no one really thinks we’ll turn the clocks back. AI will worsen inequality (the biggest gains will go to a small class of entrepreneurs), but also grow the over-all pie, so most people will not be worse off because of it.
The UK will be ‘Net’ carbon-neutral, emphasis on the net. The green movement will shift its focus away from climate change.
The UK will reach its target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. Electricity will be de-carbonised by lots of renewables, much cheaper batteries coming out in the 2030s, and a fair smattering of nuclear baseload. Electric cars will become the norm by the 2030s, and be almost phased out entirely by 2050, with the only ICE cars being interesting artifacts used by hobbyists. We will still use fossil fuels for air travel (though there may be some electric planes for short-haul flights enabled by battery breakthroughs) and gas will hang around as a source of energy for heating for far longer than we’d like, with many homes only just phasing out gas in the mid-2040s. We hit the target despite still burning fuel for air travel and a few other hard to decarbonize sectors using negative emissions technologies like BECCS and potentially some direct air capture, which will have matured massively by the late 2040s.
So, we’re still emitting some carbon in 2050, but we’re able to take more out of the atmosphere than we’re putting in. This decreases the salience of climate change as an issue in the UK, although climate change globally is not solved as many countries are not yet carbon neutral. The worst climate scenarios (4 degrees+) are successfully avoided by global decarbonization efforts. But they are not fast enough to prevent significant warming (2 degrees) so the world’s climate has changed significantly, making heatwaves and extreme weather more likely. This causes big problems but is not apocalyptic.
Some groups wrongly conclude this meant climate change was never going to be extremely dangerous. The reality is we successfully acted to avoid the worst outcomes.
By 2050s there are serious debates about whether to use negative emissions tech to reduce global temperatures back to pre-industrial levels or whether it’s best to leave it stable at the new elevated rate.
In 2022 climate change has become the top environmental issue by a long way, but by 2050 our successful action will mean the green movement will change to emphasize a range of ecological issues other than climate change and will continue to be politically relevant. Big debates will be around re-wilding, calling for a zero-waste society, and potentially anti-plastic campaigns that are mostly about vibes/aesthetics.
It’ll be environmentalists Vs conservationists
There’s nothing natural about the British countryside. Rolling hills populated by sheep divided by dry stone walls seem as old as time, but of course, these are manmade landscapes.
The words conservationist and environmentalist are currently used almost interchangeably but by 2050 the big divide between the two positions will be apparent.
In the 2030s in the race to hit the net-zero target, large amounts of tree planting will pitch environmentalists who want to re-forest large areas with conservationists who want to keep the English countryside the way it is now (which is not natural).
Breakthroughs in artificial meat will mean we could free up large amounts of farmland, but farmers will want subsidies to keep farming and keep it preserved it how it is. Environmentalists will want to be left to fall fallow and re-wilded. As more re-wilding occurs and less land is used for farming (thanks to improved yields, some vertical farming and artificial meat) they’ll be debates over the re-introduction of ever more and larger fauna. Think bears.
Outside of Britain some extinct animals will be brought back (Wolly Mammoths), but Britain will be too conservative to try re-introducing these.
The birth rate will continue to decline slowly — childlessness will be more common, but so will large families.
AI’s replacement of the need to work will mean a much more skewed distribution of fertility (rather than a typical family having 2 kids, many people have no kids, and a small but significant percentage have very many (6+) because generous child benefits enabled by AI induced growth mean it’s possible to have many kids without it being an economic burden. This helps arrest the decline in the birth rate somewhat, but doesn’t bring it back above replacement. Progress in AI means this is less of a worry, as it’s not like we need a strong birth rate to provide for the older generation’s pensions.
There will be flying cars, though only just.
Regulation will hold back flying cars for a long time, but as they become popular in other places in the world Britain eventually allows them as they’re just so useful. This will start to free us from roads, and therefore allow more inhabitation of the countryside, but this will be fought by environmentalists trying to preserve their newly re-wilded spaces.
Scotland will get as devolved as possible, and have a very different political culture, but not leave the union.
(No country has ever left a union that directly subsidies it — unless you count Wales voting Leave). I’m much less sure of this one.
People will live considerably longer (150. Edit: people born in 2050 can expect to live to 150. Average live expectancy might rise to be around 90, but unlikely to pass 100) but the US will lead the breakthroughs in this area and the UK will lag behind
I’ll be 57 in 2050 when I get to look back on these predictions. Over-all, I’m predicting a future that is somewhat better than today, but many things remain surprisingly similar. It is neither dystopian nor utopian. AI’s replacement of most jobs will leave many struggling for meaning, yet also mean we have a previously unimaginable amount of leisure time. Some people will handle that better than others. Seen as I’ll be gearing up for retirement by then, I’m hopeful I’ll be well placed to enjoy it.
June 2022 is a “make it happen” (Taurus) “fast” (Gemini) month.
If at the end of last month Mars and Jupiter have lit a fire inside us, in June we’re asked to do something about it.
Let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month:
June 3rd, 2022 – Mercury Goes Direct
On June 3rd, 2022, Mercury goes direct at 26° Taurus. YES!
Mercury direct will bring back our focus, mental clarity, and sense of direction. In the past 3 weeks, Mercury retrograde gave us the opportunity to address those areas of our life that were up for review.
Now that we’ve done the work, we’re ready to move on with a new sense of purpose. Full steam ahead!
June 5th, 2022 – Saturn Goes Retrograde
On June 5th, 2022 Saturn goes retrograde, drawing our attention to themes of responsibility, duty and consequence. Saturn begins its yearly 4 and a half months retrograde journey at 25° Aquarius, and will turn direct on October 23rd, 2022 at 18° Aquarius.
In September and October, Saturn will get within 1° of orb from a square to Uranus – last year’s Saturn-Uranus square themes will re-emerge. If you have planets between 18°-25° degrees in fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) Saturn will show where in your life you’re at cross purposes.
Retrogrades are times of revision, of trying different approaches. If you feel stuck, that’s usually because there’s more than one area of your life that needs examining.
If you’re sick, it may be your health, but also your close relationships that need your attention. If you’re unsatisfied in your career, changing jobs is just a part of the puzzle: you may also need to change locations.
Saturn retrograde (and its square to Uranus) asks for a systemic change. Saturn will give you the grit to keep going, and Uranus will show you some different perspectives. By the end of the retrograde, you’ll come up with new solutions to old problems.
June 11th-16th, 2022 – Venus Conjunct Uranus And North Node
On June 11th, 2022 Venus is conjunct Uranus at 16° Taurus. A few days later, Venus also connects with the North Node.
Venus is the planet of love and personal values. Uranus is the planet of truth, freedom and liberation. The North Node is our compass, our life’s purpose.
We may think we are true to ourselves, that we know what we want… but sometimes it takes a Venus-Uranus transit to shake us and show us what we really want. When we do find out what it is that we want, the whole universe conspires to make it happen.
June 14th, 2022 – Full Moon In Sagittarius
On June 14th, 2022 we have a Full Moon at 23° Sagittarius. The Full Moon is square Neptune in Pisces. The ruler of the Full Moon, Jupiter is unaspected in Aries.
The Full Moon in Sagittarius is a culmination of the current lunar cycle that started on May 30th, when we had a New Moon in Gemini. The New Moon ruler, Mercury was retrograde so the whole lunar cycle carries this introspective quality.
At the Full Moon, we may initially feel that we’ve lost our compass (Jupiter unaspected). But that’s because our old beliefs no longer serve us… at least not in this current context.
The Full Moon square Neptune will show us that there is a way – a different way – to achieve our goals. At the Full Moon, allow the inquisitive spirit of Sagittarius to guide you in finding different answers in unusual places.
June 15th, 2022 – Mars Conjunct Chiron
On June 15th, 2022 Mars is conjunct Chiron at 15° Aries.
Mars is how we assert ourselves, Chiron is the wounded healer, and Aries is our identity. Some past hurts around the topic of “I am” may resurface during this transit.
Feelings of doubt, shame and inadequacy are usually triggered when we have a Mars-Chiron transit. Questions like “What’s wrong with me?”, “Am I here by accident?”, “Why can’t I find my life’s purpose?” may come to your awareness.
Instead of numbing them down, look at these uncomfortable feelings as an opportunity to understand yourself at a deeper level.
There’s nothing wrong with you – nor with your wants, needs and desires. You have them for a reason – and that reason is directly connected with your purpose in this lifetime.
June 21st, 2022 – Sun Enters Cancer
On June 21st, the Sun enters Cancer and we have the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
No matter where you live, 21st of June is one of the most important days of the year. The Sun is either at the highest point in the sky, or at the lowest. This marks a culmination – a point of “no return”. We either have the longest day, or the longest night of the year.
Things are about to shift. Our priorities may change. On this magical day, tune in and reflect on where you’re at a crossroad in your life. The universe will guide you on the next course of action.
June 23rd, 2022 – Venus Enters Gemini
On June 23rd, 2022 Venus enters Gemini. Venus shows us what we value. If in Taurus, Venus valued stability and comfort, in Gemini, Venus values curiosity and intellectual pursuits.
Learning a new skill, traveling, meeting new people, singing, dancing, writing or working with your hands are some of Venus in Gemini’s favorite activities.
Gemini is a Mercury sign, so of course, communication (Mercury) in relationships (Venus) is a central theme of this transit. When Venus is in Gemini, we find it easier to articulate our feelings.
Of course, feelings are there to be felt, but knowing how to label and put them into words can help us understand ourselves and others from a more objective lens. In this way, we can rewire outdated relating patterns, diffuse resentment, and find a new sense of intimacy.
June 28th, 2022 – Neptune Goes Retrograde
On June 28th, 2022, Neptune goes retrograde at 25° Pisces.
When a planet changes direction, there is an intensification of its themes. When Neptune goes retrograde, old dreams, desires, fantasies, longings, feelings we haven’t fully processed resurface, demanding our attention.
What makes Neptune different from other planets is its subtlety. Neptune is not the Uranian lightbulb moment, nor the Plutonian slap in the face.
Neptune is less obvious. Pay attention to signs, serendipities, dreams, unusual communication or messages. If something feels relevant and important – even if you can’t put your finger on it – chances are, it IS important and Neptune is whispering into your ear.
Of course, if you have planets or angles around 25° Pisces you will feel Neptune’s change in direction more intensely.
June 29th, 2022 – New Moon In Cancer
On June 29th, 2022 we have a New Moon at 7° Cancer. The New Moon is conjunct the Black Moon Lilith (BML) and it is exactly square Jupiter at 7° Aries.
This is a bold, action-oriented New Moon. Cancer is our inner mama bear; it is what we hold dear to our heart. Jupiter in Aries gives us the impulse to act upon what it is that we hold most dear.
Our emotions (Cancer) fuel our actions (Aries) and the other way around. The impulse to take action is very strong, almost Pavlovian. It may be raw and taboo (Black Moon Lilith). But it will eventually set us on a new trajectory, a trajectory that is more aligned with who we truly are.
If June promises to be eventful, wait for July. In July 2022 we have one of the most anticipated transits of the year and perhaps of the decade: North Node conjunct Uranus in Taurus. I will write a separate report about this monumental transit – stay tuned!
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When we think of the foundational heroes of progressive American urbanism, Jane Jacobs often first comes to mind. Jacobs’ 1961 classic, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” transformed our view of cities and urban renewal. The next name that may come to mind is UCLA Professor Donald Shoup. His 2005 “The High Cost of Free Parking” remains scripture for backers of parking reform.
One name unlikely to emerge is William H. Whyte. When I tried to read all relevant books about cities for my own Generation Priced Out, I never considered Whyte’s works. Earlier this year I turned down Island Press’s offer of a review copy for Richard Rein’s new book on Whyte, American Urbanist. But after I picked up a copy in the library I could not put it down.
Rein’s book is truly impressive. He shows how Whyte criticized planners for their housing, density, suburban sprawl and parking policies long before others. Whyte pioneered the strategy to secure open space through scenic easements. Whyte recruited Jacobs to write her book, and she always credited him for his support. Yet Whyte’s name is primarily associated with his first major book, The Organization Man,” not with his influential books on cities.
A Visionary Before His Time
Rein rescues Whyte’s legacy by chronicling his visionary critiques of urban and suburban America. He was the Paul Revere of critics of American urbanism and suburbanism, yet his warnings were not heeded. Whyte advanced many of the policies that YIMBYs and other urbanists push today. But he did so in a post-war era driven by faith in freeway and suburb construction and in the racist, displacement causing “urban renewal.”
Nothing bothered Whyte more than the vast stretches of land cities devoted to parking lots. He fought for true open space in urban areas at a time when developer incentives were given to create ill-conceived spaces that people would rarely use. He famously said, “It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.” He even got involved in the proper design of playgrounds. He said playgrounds looked like they were designed by planners who didn’t like kids.
Whyte had very specific guidelines for successful open spaces. And he often had the influence to implement them. Bryant Park is one of the nation’s most successful public spaces. Chief credit for this goes to William Whyte. Whyte was always very blunt with his criticisms. In some cases, as in Dallas, that led city officials to reject his plans. But Rein shows how Whyte’s perspectives usually influenced both planners and developers to do better projects.
The irony of Whyte’s life was that he became best known for a book, The Organization Man, widely misinterpreted today. His books that helped remake cities—–The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, City: Rediscovering the Center, and The Exploding Metropolis to name a few—got less public attention.
Why was Whyte Forgotten?
Toward the end of his life Whyte expressed concern that he had no legacy. After all, much of his work came from his books and role as consultant to planners, developers and other powerful figures like Lawrence Rockefeller. Rein cites various scholars and conferences directly influenced by Whyte, while recognizing that Whyte had limitations that impacted his legacy.
First, Whyte was always part of the Establishment. A Princeton grad whose work was often funded by Rockefeller, Whyte would never have considered himself an activist—a role Jacobs combined with her scholarship. Whyte cheered on Jacobs’ battle with Robert Moses and against freeway expansion but he was not someone who attended protests and or was affiliated with neighborhood groups. Peter Laurence notes in his brilliant book on Jacobs that she resented being portrayed as a mom who rode a bicycle; it downplayed her serious scholarship and training. Yet this image of Jacobs a regular neighborhood activist encouraged her legacy over an Establishment insider like William Whyte.
Whyte’s characterizations of women were sometimes less than woke. He measured public spaces by their success in attracting “girl-watching.” This was part of his view that public spaces’ success depended on their ability to attract women. Whyte denounced the displacement of Black and Brown residents via urban renewal but never connected to groups resisting this. He saw “gentrification” solely as a function of disinvestment rather than of speculators transforming once affordable housing into homes for the more affluent.
Yet in the big picture, Whyte’s ability to use establishment connections to promote what were then radical urban policies is likely unprecedented in American urban history. I turned the pages at Rein’s book marveling how Whyte saw the future so much clearer than almost everyone else.
YIMBYs and urbanists will likely have the same response. Thanks to Richard Rein for bringing the forgotten legacy of William H. Whyte back to life.
Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw’s latest book is Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. He is the author of four prior books on activism, including The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century, and Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. He is also the author of The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco
The author of the legendary #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul shows us step-by-fascinating-step how to create a life of love and where that now leads.
Internationally acclaimed author and teacher, Gary Zukav, shares a new vision of power and hope in this time of extraordinary transformation. Universal Human gives us new tools to grow spiritually and shows us how to transform everyday experiences of hopelessness, emptiness, and pain into fulfillment, meaning, and joy. It points us toward a startling new destination—a species that is beyond culture, religion, nation, ethnic group, and gender, a species whose allegiance is to Life first and all else second—and shows us how to get there. Universal Human examines our disintegrating social structures and the new social structures that are replacing them. It shows us a new creation story—our new creation story—as we create it with our choices, our deeds, and our words.
A new human consciousness is replacing the old human consciousness. Authentic power—the alignment of the personality with soul—is replacing external power, the ability to manipulate and control. Zukav explains that the potential of a new era of humanity based on love instead of fear is upon us, but only we can bring it into being. Universal Human shows us how. It is a book that you will never forget.
In defense of forgetting, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, ‘The person who cannot set himself down on the crest of the moment, forgetting everything from the past… like a goddess of victory, without dizziness or fear, will never know what happiness is.’ This principle was echoed by the Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron in her landmark book, When Things Fall Apart, ‘Renunciation is a teaching to inspire us to investigate what’s happening every time we grab something because we can’t stand to face what’s coming.’ In this vein, poet E.E. Cummings‘ Let It Go reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.
Let It Go– The
let it go – the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise – let it go it was sworn to go
let them go – the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers – you must let them go they were born to go
let all go – the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things – let all go dear
We have a Ukraine Emergency Translation Group meeting scheduled for this Friday, June 3, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, noon Mountain time, 1pm Central time, 2pm Eastern time, 8pm Greece, 9pm Turkey.
We will share your Translation with the group, if you like. You can email your Translation to me at zonta1111@aol.com.
Or perhaps you have a sense testimony you’d like to share. Or other insights or comments you may have.
Open to all Translators. Translate whatever you like or don’t Translate anything at all. Your choice.
See you Friday.
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The Lovers is numbered six and is a card of innocence, trust, exhileration and joy. The couple (often seen intertwined or standing side by side) are soulmates, each being one half of a perfect union. The figure flying above them is Cupid, blessing them with the might of Universal Love.
The Lovers are the embodiment of the harmony of opposites. This is how we are before the fear and prejudices of life intervene. We give our love freely to others and we need no other to make us whole.
Love is much misunderstood. It is subjective and the word ‘love’ is so overused that it has almost lost its original meaning. We are all capable of the immense power of deep feelings. Love happens when we step out of the darkness of fear, pain and doubt into the light. Love can move mountains. Love breeds love – a happy smile breaking through another’s melancholy proves this.
Loving ourselves is the first step to touching the mighty power of Universal Love. We must live each moment as though it were the only one – rejoicing and celebrating, loving the soul within us rather than fighting with the reflection the rest of the world sees.
(via angelpaths.com and Alan Blackman)
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