Upliftment List #26
Your Weekly Dose of Upliftment
Fred Rogers testifying in support of PBS before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications in 1969, and actions the rest of us can take to support public media.
From Lisa Olivera of Human Stuff:
You can be a door to compassion, a door to endless wide-open acceptance, a door to holding your own being with the kind of love that pours from Mother Earth herself. You can be a door to ceaseless care, to warmth that emulates the sun on skin, to a balm in the form of your own unconditional embrace. You can be a door to unending second chances, to recognition of all you’ve overcome, to being an attuned witness to your own ever-flowing humanity. You can be a door that lets okayness in when it visits, that lets grief flow out when okayness isn’t here that invites in companionship alongside it all.
The Hardest Winter of My Life, from Andrea Gibson:
Because I realized that if I only reach out to you from the healed place, from the lesson learned, then we don’t get to sit in vulnerability together. Neatly resolved stories signal that the exploration is over. Sometimes it’s not about knowing the answer, but being inside the question together. Being inside the hardest winter together. Being beside each other in the cold when, finally, the first brave sprout pushes through the hard earth, and a smile breaks the surface of our faces, and another season of our lives is upon us. And we gasp in color.
A short YouTube documentary about Norman Smith, “the Owl Man of Logan Airport.” Norman has dedicated his life to protecting and relocating snowy owls (he’s single-handedly relocated 900) from the airport runways at Logan.