Magda's Community Center #19: Keep the lights on


Magda Pecsenye

COMMUNITY CENTER

Hi, friends,

This is going to get worse. Chump and Musk are still totally unchecked, and the world is figuring out that the US is no longer trustworthy (if we ever were) and is going to stop associating with us, and things are going to collapse more and more.

But eventually we'll get out of this. And that means that we need to preserve the good things about our system and our culture. Artists have to keep making art, musicians need to keep making music, scientists have to keep researching, and we all have to keep doing our best at whatever our vocations are, so we don't just disappear as a people. So we still have something left to get through our daily lives with, to teach our kids. So we still have value as people to the rest of the world.

Let's keep things running and keep the lights on, so when we get free again we can build things better and kinder, on a basis of excellence. May our cruelty disappear and our kindness take charge.

We can do this.

Love,

Magda

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Magda Pecsenye Zarin

Magda Pecsenye has been writing on the internet since 2003. She was Ask Moxie from 2005-2015 and won a bunch of best of parenting blogs and best of advice blogs awards. She took a break from blogging to lean in to social media, but now that social media is dying she's back blogging again. In addition to writing this blog, she writes about Good Management Practices and podcasts about the challenges and horrors of being in your 50s with her ex-husband Doug French.

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