Debra Leigh Says

                                            For most of us 2019 was an extremely difficult year.  This has been true on a personal level for many of us, and it certainly has been true on a global level.  In beginning the new year, and looking forward to a really wonderful 2020, I thought it might make sense to share some thoughts on a process that allows us to gain the most from the experiences of 2019, and then to let it go so that 2020 can begin with a fresh and revitalized energy. Where to begin? You Review It . Pay attention, read deeply, learn, find your way through the events and inform yourself. Go beyond the cable news networks and the mainstream press. Why?  Because they all have an agenda.  Try your best to see their agenda, and to incorporate it into your understanding of the ways in which the “news” is packaged and presented.  Read b...

(Photo from http://usslave.blogspot.com/2012/11/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery.html) In Part One of this essay, I wrote that a country born of genocide, built by slavery, grown by exploitation and cruelty, with its society fueled by racism and intolerance, may not be capable of being saved.  I begin Part Two here by saying that, if such a country cannot be saved and reformed, then it should cease to exist.   Such a country is a danger to everything that is life-affirming, and should be challenged, both from within by its citizens and from without by countries who are more committed to the well-being of their people. Stefan Zweig , an émigré from the Nazi terrors in Europe, was deeply miserable in the United States, where he and his wife had landed after escaping first the continent, and then England.  He watched in horror as fascism and violence consumed everything he once knew of his life.  Europe, he wrote, was committing suicide.  It was only...