Yesterday, when I was feeling bad about my country, it comforted me to think about all the other countries that exist in the world.
After the results of our latest election, I know some people who are considering moving away from my country to other countries. For now, I have no plans to leave my country. For one thing, I want to keep facilitating therapy groups in the USA.
In a Coping and Healing group this week, I said that each person is like a separate country with our own traditions, history, and language, and that it takes work for us to understand and communicate with each other. I saw the other “countries” in the group nod their heads in agreement.
I’m looking forward to visiting another country next year with some dear friends from film school.
What countries do you see in my blog post for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “countries” on YouTube.
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Thank to all who are reading this countries post, including YOU!
Repeat daily, all of us. it’s our country. It’s our country. Thanks for being you, Ann.
Thank you for being you, my worldly friend.
It’s our country. No matter what happens or where we go, we will always be Americans. I met a man recently who describes himself as an Assyrian Christian. He was a driver my sister hired to come to Madison from Chicago, and he ate lunch with us. I had recently finished a book that detailed the ancient Middle East, so of course I remembered the great and powerful Assyrians. And here was one, a refugee from Iraq. So of course I am wondering when, how, and why Americans will be refugees in a country of which we have not yet heard. Believing in a religion or a system of government which has yet to be delineated. And I think that holding tight to a belief in every person being born equal and entitled to life, liberty and a pursuit of happiness is important. The driver’s eyes lit up when I mentioned Assyria, and he said yes, that’s me. May our descendants’ eyes light up when they hear the word American, and think, yes. We are of those people.
I’m so proud we are both from the same country, Barbara.
I have no intention of leaving my country, but enjoy visiting others. I still feel I’m in the best place I could be, and my job it to help to make it better.
And you’re doing a great job, beth.
I’d forgotten that among yesterday’s other anniversaries it was the day Aldous Huxley died, within a few hours of Kennedy’s death, and C.S. Lewis’s as well.
Huxley’s last novel is set on the island of Pala, a society built around equality and respect for others. I wish I could go there, but instead I reread the book every few years, hoping I can pass on its lessons.
Thanks for all the helpful lessons you pass on, my good friend.
Good people get to know each other when there is work to be done and sometimes when things seem dire, in time more is accomplished than would ever have been imagined.
I agree, my good friend.
it’s not the country
that is causing my headaches
it’s the lack of sense
You’re not alone, Jan.