Unattraction

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

I used this image because I had one of my most peaceful moments sitting below this tower, on a blisteringly hot August day in Paris. I felt like using an image that recreates that feeling today.

I love much of the UK and there are many attractions that I have visited over and over again, just not near us.

Like attracts like

Love attracts love.

It’s no secret that this world is a mess, it seems that we hear of atrocities from every corner, every continent. We hear of sadness and tragedy from all over the world. Right now the so-called leaders of the big nations are a disgrace. Something I never thought I’d call the American president. Deliberate small P there.

Briefly he said in a speech that the UK and other NATO troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan, they were effectively behind the American troops. I don’t know where the other countries were, but we certainly were in the front line, and I’d be stunned if the others weren’t right beside us where they’ve always been. If not it would not have been by choice.

To say that we and Europe are angry would be the underestimate of the Millennium, that’s 800 years longer than white America has existed.

However, that’s the obvious isn’t it, politicians. But we are just as bad in the way we treat each other. Most serious crimes are not committed by politicians, unless you’re a warmonger of course. They’re committed by the public and we must not abdicate all responsibility for the state of our nations.

The power of love

Love has the power to end all crime, all nastiness, all thoughtlessness, down to the smallest insult. The more of us who can be what this world needs the better this world will become. Future generations will have a much nicer experience of being alive, of getting up in the morning, if we can say no now and mean it.

Politicians exist as one example of what we should not be, Trump managed to trump that this week. Actually since he threatened to annexe Canada and invade Greenland. He denigrated the support and friendship that America has long enjoyed, he risked our admiration of America which deserves our greatest gratitude, and he risks creating utter chaos in this world.

We know this isn’t all of the American people though. We still love you.

That’s a prime example of what not being loving can do, but it’s only top level. Okay top level could get us all blown to bits and create a nuclear winter, sarcastic yes, but also true.

That’s why it’s so important to have the courage to love. To meet each stranger as a potential friend. To be compassionate and understanding, be quietly strong when standing up to bad behaviour is required.

My father could drop you to your knees with a look. I think we’ve all had a grandmother who could rule the roost with a glare. My grandfather only had to say “I’m very disappointed in you” to devastate his 3 girls.

That is the strength that backs up love, quiet, deadly, but weapon-less. It’s the strength that we all need right now, to start saying no to the world order, to the way our leaders are behaving, and demand that they do their jobs in looking after their people not getting them, and others, killed.

Please do what you can. You guys are thinkers, observers, you take notice. Use your voices, use your strength, use your love, and save the children.

Nothing attracts me more than a loving heart and the courage to stand firm in that love.

Best love

Amorah – Deb

When I sign off in this way, love is not just a word, it’s what I genuinely send to you all.