THE PERSONAL

I realized early on in this campaign that I need to take very good care of myself to make it through to November 2nd in one piece.

Eat right, sleep right, exercise, and take my vitamins. A couple months into the campaign I realized that wasn’t enough. I needed to get back to a formal meditation. Sit, breathe, spend 20 minutes not running as a Green Party candidate for Governor!

I realized that – and there are a lot of ways to phrase this – I needed to listen to wisdom, follow my heart, be guided by the universe, by the ancestors, by God. Check in with my inner wisdom, and act on it. Realize that I am part of a movement with millions of people working to understand what’s going on locally and globally, and doing something about it, toward a better world.

Today in meditation I received the simple message that the job is to:

“Understand the situation, do what I can about it, and come up happy!”

Why not?

THE POLITICAL

In my previous blog I said I’d say more about the US Social Forum, but now my inner wisdom – or the clock – is telling me I need to get to work. More than 14,000 people attended the US Social Forum in Detroit last week with idea that “Another world is possible. Another US is necessary.” Things will eventually turn toward constructive change rather than destructive change, and when that happens, everything that everyone is doing now and has been doing all this time will be of use. I’m hearing, “Have fun, and get to work!”