Waking Up

I came across the video below while perusing my Facebook news feed earlier today. It's by the non-profit organization Avaaz, and I have to say that I find it very inspiring and hope-filled! Perhaps you will too.

I preface it with the following quote by Joanna Macy (right), one that I find equally inspiring and hopeful.

The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world – we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other.

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Hope in the Midst of Collapse
• Let Us Be "Energized by the Beauty That Is All Around Us": Jane Goodall's New Year Message
• Buffy Sainte-Marie's Medicine Songs
• In Australia, "Love Has Had a Landslide Victory"
• What a Man – Connor Beaton
• The Catalan Firefighters: Listeners of the "Discerning Voice" Within
• Progressive Perspectives on Colin Kaepernick and the "Take A Knee" Movement
• Making the Connections
• Ahmad Joudeh: Dancing for Peace
• Imagine, Heal, Resist! – Mayday 2017 (Part 1)
• Imagine, Heal, Resist! – Mayday 2017 (Part 2)
• The People's Climate Solidarity March – Minneapolis, 4/29/17
• Progressive Perspectives on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria
• 2000+ Take to the Streets of Minneapolis to Express Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees
• "The Movement of Love and Inclusion Has Just Been Unleashed"
• "It Is All Connected"
• Andrew Harvey on Radical, Divine Passion in Action
• Move Us, Loving God
• Sufism: A Call to Awaken
• Don't Go Back to Sleep

Related Off-site Links:
For the New Year – The Leveret (January 1, 2018).
What We Want for 2018: The Biggest Movement Leaders Envision the Changes Ahead – Beverly Bell (Yes!, January 5, 2018).
Let's Make 2018 the Year We Rise Up and Regenerate! – Ronnie Cummins (Common Dreams, January 5, 2018).