CARE

This is a country you can only love with a broken heart.   #Frank-WalterSteinmeier

Every time our heart is broken, a doorway cracks opens to a world of new beginnings and opportunity. 

We’re hard-wired for happiness. We are born to care.  Appreciate things and people that matter most and gratitude will sweep you off your feet. 

Practice kindness and love and your heart will sing. Keep your eyes and mind open, alert. This is a time of looking back and looking forward. Tomorrow’s going to be a better day.

No matter who you are, your heart is pumping and your lungs are sucking O_2. Don’t undervalue the gift and power of being alive. Problems facing us are solvable when we think from the seat of our soul. Notice what you sense. Be on fire.

CARE is a commitment with purpose. It's courage. Change driven by compassion, awareness, reason and purpose comes from the heart. Caring is logic, experience and heart working together. It takes energy and humility to care. It takes energy to sense what’s right. Do it your way. Some choose prayer, meditation, conversation or collaboration. Together we can:

Create with compassion.

Alter with awareness.

Revolutionize with reason and

Explore to evolve.

Germany has a joint government and corporate reparations fund for education called, “Memory, Responsibility and Future”. Labor rights, medical care, education and paid vacations are human rights in Europe and Scandinavia.  We can do this.

Dignity, courage and humility are our intuitive hot-line.   Power and money need to be balanced by kindness and generosity to mend a broken country, to mend the broken hearts. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together. 

Address problems at their root. Feeding someone and questioning why they are hungry are not the same. Have conversations about ideas and values. Dignity is everyone’s birthright. There are no trade-offs or short-cuts for caring. Be smart.

Maintain your highest standards. Honor, courage and dignity are our intuitive voice. We can respect, love, hope and forgive without being naïve. Question everything. Only you are responsible for your personal development. Happiness is hard-wired into us but our soul is not naïve.

Live with as much love as you can. It is the force inside. If love is respect, then every relationship is about love. A broken heart is just growing pains until the real thing comes along. Don’t allow anyone or anything to rob your peace of mind.

We are the ones who are going to make America live up to its ideals. Our culture is contaminated. It’s time to clean-up. Let’s take an honest view of our country’s strengths and weaknesses. What has been callous and tragic must be faced. The truth is always alive.  Leaders we want and need are ourselves. We have to care.

Apathy is ignorance that happens when we take stuff for granted. Dignity is the antidote. Dignity is caring. When we clean-up who we are, we change the world.

Practice kindness. Live fully and love deeply. Don't stop dreaming. Never stop caring. #janebernard

River of Dreams, Billy Joel

photo by Josh Hild

Walking the Edge of Time

Everyone walks the changing edge of time searching for balance and justice. Humanity is an exquisite jewel that sparkles with enormous energy. Don't underestimate the power of your words. Choose happy. Every day is a good day to feel the gentle kiss of desire and imagine stories. Remember to move to music and to enjoy the sanctity of silence. You will find what you want.

Searching For Balance and Justice We Find Love

Sensuality leaves us breathless listening to the balancing beat of our hearts. We are born to realize our dreams, not to be perfect. When we depend on our strength of character, while exploring tastes of excitement, it's easy to dance with the scent of desire and touch the heart of kindness.  

Thinking sensually, we sync with music of change, while always marching to rhythms of Justice.

Justice is not political or drawn by lines on a map. It's easy to recognize. Feel justice when you communicate. Be open to rhythms of peace and beauty. Laugh more. Do what is right. Notice the balancing beat of your heart. Your energy is an important part of the sparkle of Life. There is always something to be thankful for.

At the edge of time, thinking and language change. The respected artist Mary Engelbreit Riles posted an old Ben Franklin quote, "Justice will not be served until those unaffected are as outraged as those who are." In 1777, 'outrage' was respectable. Today, ‘outrage’ is an irrational state of mind that inspires violence. Don’t let outrage deny justice. Instead, dance with your passions until they turn to wisdom. Then reply with all the power of your soul. Always move towards the light.

In the 1960’s, the great Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The word "threat" wasn't personal in the 60's. But today the word 'threat' conjurs fear, which is why we need to find our edge. Fear is a bully. The edge is where we meet each other with equal mind and spirit. It’s where we are curiously driven to find balance, to take on more, see from a fresh perspective and have another taste of the wonder of living. Injustice is always wrong. That’s a fact.

The edge can't be corrupted. No matter what we do to it or call it, the edge is always Love.  John Lennon, who was so far ahead of his time, said, "If someone thinks that Love and Peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the '60's, that's his problem. Love and Peace are eternal."

Love is our skill of walking the edge of time together. To be human is a ‘skill’ of sensuality and common sense. I heard a robot manufacturer talk about how hard is is to teach robots to balance on two legs. We have skills we don't know about because we take them for granted. Notice what you notice. Be authentic. Steve Jobs said, "If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking." Life is a gift of variety, opportunity and sensuality. Seeking balance is sensual thinking. Justice is where we find peace.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.  #MahatmaGandhi

#janebernard