Recording of Last Week's "Allostasis" [Stability through Change] Conversation

posted under a cloud of sadness

Friends,

Having taken yesterday off to tend to my post-Easter “clergy hangover,” I’d planned to share today the recording of last week’s conversation about “stability through change,” prompted by this Blue Room post about this New York Times article. I’d also planned to share the good news that, as promised, I donated 50% of all new supporting subscriptions over the last few weeks to World Central Kitchen:

Then I saw the news that 7 World Central Kitchen team members were killed in a strike by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza. According to the WCK website, now clad in black to mourn for their fallen comrades, the WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars and had coordinated their activities with Israeli authorities.

This is devastating news. And enraging—though for me, anger is often a mask for grief.
How can this be the world?
How can this be the best we can do?
And now what?

Into those questions comes these modest answers. We must learn how to weather, to grieve, to address, the heartbreaks and injustices that surround us. Sometimes that means stepping away from the news and back into our bodies. Sometimes it means drawing close to places of pain. Sometimes it means linking arms with one another.