Day 131e: Finding LOVE in the library … (September 07, 2019)
I made it easily into Lexington proper thereafter, and just as easily to the Rockbridge Regional Library, where I was surreally greeted by a most appreciative group of employees and volunteers; each one in their own right just as impressed by The Walk as anyone I had met before. Cali and Michelle were more openly effusive in their praise of my adventure and far more supportive of its underlying message, true enough, and yet even Nancy (who was openly skeptical of both my denouncement of Democratic politicians* and the power of radical selflessness**) proved to be exceptionally kind and delightfully wonderful. This was one of those places where I felt that Friendships could be easily formed, and – after once more checking in online – a flowed onward, profoundly uplifted by their expressions of encouragement and caring …
*Feel free to NOTE that I most certainly do not support any Republican politician. Just because I correctly denounce the spineless corruptions of the Democratic Party (including all its supposedly “progressives” members) does not mean that I am required to laud or champion their red-hued compatriots. Republicans tend to out themselves quite honestly in their unabashedly unethical defense of caving to the needs of the wealthy and ignoring the needs of the poor and attacking all enemies at home & abroad with violence. Democrats, on the other hand, actively champion all those same evils (their voting records prove the same consistently) while talking as if they don’t. This is not only wicked, it is deceitful – not only evil, but manipulative, and as such needs to be called out and verbally trounced all the more.
**To the very end Nancy refused to accept that Kindness & Love are most potent (and therefore fare more effective) whenever they are most difficult to give – whenever they are offered especially in those times we least wish to give them, and especially to those “least deserving” of the same.
“If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position or orientation, then the world is bettered by my efforts to understand and empathize. And if you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same compassion and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been significantly extended thereby. Let us want people to feel with us, more than act for us. Let us try to make the world a better place, by living a greater Love … So how do we change the world? By sending out one ripple of Love at a time – one ripple of Love that will inevitably affect one person – and then another – and then another – and then another.” ~ inspired by George Eliot & Nanette Matthews
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