Opening Reflection

At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what I was feeling. Watching that White House meeting, Trump, Vance, Zelenskyy, something had shifted, but it took a while to work out what it was. It wasn’t just shock or disgust. It was grief. The world I had grown up in, imperfect, complete with struggles, but with certain shared understandings, was gone. Not eroded bit by bit as it had been for years, but torn away in a moment. The assumptions about how friends and allies behave towards each other no longer held. And with that sense of profound and sudden change came vulnerability. Memories of childhood trauma returned, if this could happen to friends, then we may be in for some pretty poor treatment as well. Read More…

Tags: cultural heritage, environmental connection, economic reciprocity, community collaboration, grief, relational governance