Neighbor, I’m really going to try to keep the message that corresponds with this podcast short. So who’s this episode for? It’s for anyone who felt their heart sink and their dread kick in once the US Senate betrayed our country and supported a bill that gives the ultra-rich profound control over our social lives and will further enrich them as they built private forces to starve, surveil, abduct, silence, traffic, torture, persecute, and murder our fellow neighbors. The enormity of this betrayal feels too much. Maybe it feels like numbness, maybe it feels like despair, maybe it feels like an impotent rage that leads to soul death. All of this is by design. So if you’re feeling low, let this podcast remind you of the score. Yes, there is terror and terribleness. The weak always terrorize to frighten the masses into submission so that they forget they are the force more powerful.
I’ve got you neighbor, and we’ve got each other.
We’ve just got to remember who we are.
To close out this podcast description, I’m going to leave you with a poem written by Bonro W. Overstreet called “Stubborn Ounces.”
(To One Who Doubts the Worth ofDoing Anything If You Can’t Do Everything)
You say the Little efforts that I makewill do no good: they never will prevailto tip the hovering scalewhere Justice hangs in balance.
I don’t think I ever thought they would.But I am prejudiced beyond debatein favor of my right to choose which sideshall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight.
