Oh my God... You spoke my heart! Thank you. Reading this essay, I was able to take a first deep breath in a long time... There is a hidden connected-ness in truth, goodness and beauty. It is our longing and our end. Thank you for the reminder.
Trish,your writing resonates with me,like only a few others do.
This line-“Sometimes I wish I didn’t see the world this way. It would be easier. But I can’t unsee what the past few years revealed to me”-this is the most painful part of the last few years.It’s isolates you from others,makes you feel like you’re mad sometimes and can be deeply depressing,worrying about your family’s future,but deep down you know you have to face this and face this down.We may not succeed but at least we understood and tried.
Thank you 🙏 that means a lot to me that my writing resonates with you. If I can write one line that makes someone out there feel less alone, then I’ve succeeded. I know exactly what you feel, the isolation and burden of seeing this truth is heavy. But as you say, we face it down, we share our thoughts on here, we remember that we are not alone. 🙌🏻♥️
I think a lot of it is due to upbringing. If parents trust the government people tend to do the same . I was always warned about the iron fist in the velvet glove because my family was well read. Plus easy lives breeds weak people & the powers that be have timed their grab for total all encompassing power well. They’ve waited until everyone is so weak and comfortable that they’ll just comply to keep their comforts - little do they know they’ll be scant comfort in the future they have designed for us, you can’t comply your way out of a tyranny.
Trish your writing resonates with me profoundly. I feel the quiet ache of disconnection but also the pride that I can see and stand for what matters. However hard it is, I can’t do it any other way.
I’m glad I found your writing. It helps. Thank you. 🙏
Trish you have a fantastic talent of being able to articulate your inner thoughts and fear. It’s comforting to know I’m not alone. I’m often alone having to choose between being able to see through the propaganda or join the apathy in the room. As you say it’s not about superiority it’s about fear and anger of the blindness of so-called intelligent people. There’s far too many people comfortable within their perceived reality but oblivious to reality. “You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” - Ayn Rand.
Unfortunately we are in a cycle of war and sovereign debt default, people will wake up very quickly but it will be too late. We can expect further draconian government intervention.
Thank you Ian, I’m really glad to know that what I am writing has relevance for you. That why I do this. And it’s really helping me as well. This platform is full of amazing people who are restoring my faith in humanity each and every day. It’s reminded me of the unique spark of humanity that endures despite all the efforts to suppress it, it still shines on. I write to connect, so I am deeply grateful to you and everyone else who responds to me. We are not alone. ♥️
and that right direction is a breaking of the heart: opening
This occuring in relationship to the Beauty and depth of feeling you communicated:
a healing gift
especially to those of us similarly wounded and gifted by our recognition of reality.
Here’s a quote from Karl Jung
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
You’ve helped many here be released from such loneliness
Another beautiful pointed commentary Trish. Thank you. I too wish to be a serious person in your definition (though I’ve never seen the show you mention), with the courage to call out the insanity of the control grid being built around us.
To my mind being serious means seeing through the psy op-created divide between people no matter what. I mean what is the best way to call out the bs of covid and the fear-based stuff still being thrown at us? To me I gotta see everyone as human just like me. They (whenever) want us at each other’s throats.
It’s damned hard. A friend and colleague posted one of those idiotic woke posters we have here in the (blue) US. “Science is Real” it says among other moronic statements. I was tempted to put up a meme I found about the evil of vaccines and how we are injecting the remains of unborn children into ourselves (which is true and an example of how science has been used for a long time now or should I say misused).
Anyway I was stewing over how to respond when a voice clearly said to me “the real evil is the condemnation of another human being because of their views. “ Which made me stop short. I never posted the meme or confronted my indoctrinated friend. Maybe there will be a time to do so later God willing.
Yes 🙌🏻 I fully agree Garrett… divide and conquer is what they want. And we gain nothing from allowing ourselves to get angry with people we otherwise like. It’s really hard though, I have to bite my tongue every single day and it’s goes against my nature. That’s why I’m loving Substack, I have somewhere to express myself. Thank you for your comment, it means so much to me that you read and enjoyed my piece. 🙌🏻♥️
Another fabulous piece. Succession was an utter belter of a series. And there were some brilliant one-liners. That was one of the better ones. My kids bought me the full screenplay for Christmas. Thankfully they're both serious people.
Thanks Jeff, Succession is my all-time favourite. It has everything, family dysfunction, dark humour and deep heartbreak, it feels like a modern Greek tragedy. Nothing else can match it I think 👌🏻
Ex European here a settler family escaped from the feudalism of Europe working like dogs here to get into the good life. Some of my family made it I didn’t because I was more the peasant character in the Monty Python sketch called “ The Constitutional Peasant “ I rallied at injustice and betrayal to labour codes against cheap assed employers or pricks who redefine what clauses in a union contract mean. What I did notice beyond my moral indignation was how people still go subservient you know don’t rock the boat types. However when Covid came along I still had instincts that knew this was a con job. I didn’t know how far into totalitarianism the next years would go but once you see and feel the crush your heart turns sour to those who just went along even bitter as they now fall to Vaccine Injury. Also you weep for those you used to know because they remain locked in denial that is enabling further loss and a death spiral to freedom diversity and creativity. Just like the movie “ Wag The Dog “ how much are we being played with. What is reality now and what is theatre. You decide I have my vision and desires. I have big health issues to deal with and that is where I will focus. Hopefully family will realize the black sheep knows some shit before I am gone.
Hi Thomas? Are you in the US? I feel like there were pockets of freedom there in some parts, but overall yea pretty awful both in Europe and US. I now something of a heretic in my own family and friends, I’m getting used to it 😅
Once we step off of the conveyor-belt of matrix-driven emotions, if we are serious-minded, it’s a gut punch, to the Solar plexus, time-after-time.
That’s why others who see us suffering the pain of the cognitive dissonance and the sense of injustice and vile indifference towards right-ness, goodness and so forth… they look away.
Back towards a more pleasing distraction, amply supplied by the matrix. Swipe. Flip. Click. “Ce cera cera, whatever will be …”.
Seriousness, on this level, is costly. A badge of honour, easily dismissed by frivolity. But worn as a refusal to go on unchanged.
Now The Journey begins. Interior. Exterior. Searching for inner and outer harmony, as the evident dissonance mocks at our seriousness: “What will you do to create change?”
What can we do?
Take the Narrow Path, through the Narrow Gate. Keep on walking. Keep on discerning. Keep on keeping on. Keep on resisting. Until you hear the clarity of a New Calling.
It won’t come easy. But it will set you apart. Serious? Sure: it’s Life and Death out there.
Thank you Havakuk 🙏 I really like that “Take the Narrow Path, through the Narrow Gate. Keep on walking. Keep on discerning. Keep on keeping on. Keep on resisting. Until you hear the clarity of a New Calling.” Keep on discerning, and you’re right, it is costly, but in the long run it costs much more to avoid the truth. Love your words 🙌🏻
That’s the thing we sometimes miss: we avoid one thing, then don’t see another. Hence: Narrow Path dissecting. Few are those who find it. Keep on keeping on, Trish! See you along The Way!
Oh my God... You spoke my heart! Thank you. Reading this essay, I was able to take a first deep breath in a long time... There is a hidden connected-ness in truth, goodness and beauty. It is our longing and our end. Thank you for the reminder.
Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate it, it’s really great to hear that what I’ve written resonates with someone 🙌🏻
Trish,your writing resonates with me,like only a few others do.
This line-“Sometimes I wish I didn’t see the world this way. It would be easier. But I can’t unsee what the past few years revealed to me”-this is the most painful part of the last few years.It’s isolates you from others,makes you feel like you’re mad sometimes and can be deeply depressing,worrying about your family’s future,but deep down you know you have to face this and face this down.We may not succeed but at least we understood and tried.
Thank you 🙏 that means a lot to me that my writing resonates with you. If I can write one line that makes someone out there feel less alone, then I’ve succeeded. I know exactly what you feel, the isolation and burden of seeing this truth is heavy. But as you say, we face it down, we share our thoughts on here, we remember that we are not alone. 🙌🏻♥️
I think a lot of it is due to upbringing. If parents trust the government people tend to do the same . I was always warned about the iron fist in the velvet glove because my family was well read. Plus easy lives breeds weak people & the powers that be have timed their grab for total all encompassing power well. They’ve waited until everyone is so weak and comfortable that they’ll just comply to keep their comforts - little do they know they’ll be scant comfort in the future they have designed for us, you can’t comply your way out of a tyranny.
Yes very true, I was brought up to trust in authority, well not any more I don’t.
Trish your writing resonates with me profoundly. I feel the quiet ache of disconnection but also the pride that I can see and stand for what matters. However hard it is, I can’t do it any other way.
I’m glad I found your writing. It helps. Thank you. 🙏
Thank you Ginny, it makes me so happy to read your comment 🙏
Trish you have a fantastic talent of being able to articulate your inner thoughts and fear. It’s comforting to know I’m not alone. I’m often alone having to choose between being able to see through the propaganda or join the apathy in the room. As you say it’s not about superiority it’s about fear and anger of the blindness of so-called intelligent people. There’s far too many people comfortable within their perceived reality but oblivious to reality. “You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” - Ayn Rand.
Unfortunately we are in a cycle of war and sovereign debt default, people will wake up very quickly but it will be too late. We can expect further draconian government intervention.
Thank you Ian, I’m really glad to know that what I am writing has relevance for you. That why I do this. And it’s really helping me as well. This platform is full of amazing people who are restoring my faith in humanity each and every day. It’s reminded me of the unique spark of humanity that endures despite all the efforts to suppress it, it still shines on. I write to connect, so I am deeply grateful to you and everyone else who responds to me. We are not alone. ♥️
Another excellent piece Trish, bravo x
Thanks Jules ♥️
Shared again on the Twatter 😁
Thank you! 🙏 ☺️
A moving artistic prose delivered effortlessly to move us all in the right direction.
Thank you 🙏
Agreeing with RedSkelton!
and that right direction is a breaking of the heart: opening
This occuring in relationship to the Beauty and depth of feeling you communicated:
a healing gift
especially to those of us similarly wounded and gifted by our recognition of reality.
Here’s a quote from Karl Jung
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
You’ve helped many here be released from such loneliness
May you be as well
Thank you 😊 🙏
Thank you so much - your beautiful words have settled in my heart tonight, a balm for my troubles 🙌🏻♥️
Another beautiful pointed commentary Trish. Thank you. I too wish to be a serious person in your definition (though I’ve never seen the show you mention), with the courage to call out the insanity of the control grid being built around us.
To my mind being serious means seeing through the psy op-created divide between people no matter what. I mean what is the best way to call out the bs of covid and the fear-based stuff still being thrown at us? To me I gotta see everyone as human just like me. They (whenever) want us at each other’s throats.
It’s damned hard. A friend and colleague posted one of those idiotic woke posters we have here in the (blue) US. “Science is Real” it says among other moronic statements. I was tempted to put up a meme I found about the evil of vaccines and how we are injecting the remains of unborn children into ourselves (which is true and an example of how science has been used for a long time now or should I say misused).
Anyway I was stewing over how to respond when a voice clearly said to me “the real evil is the condemnation of another human being because of their views. “ Which made me stop short. I never posted the meme or confronted my indoctrinated friend. Maybe there will be a time to do so later God willing.
Peace to you always. Garrett
Yes 🙌🏻 I fully agree Garrett… divide and conquer is what they want. And we gain nothing from allowing ourselves to get angry with people we otherwise like. It’s really hard though, I have to bite my tongue every single day and it’s goes against my nature. That’s why I’m loving Substack, I have somewhere to express myself. Thank you for your comment, it means so much to me that you read and enjoyed my piece. 🙌🏻♥️
Yes to this.
Thank you 🙏
Another fabulous piece. Succession was an utter belter of a series. And there were some brilliant one-liners. That was one of the better ones. My kids bought me the full screenplay for Christmas. Thankfully they're both serious people.
Thanks Jeff, Succession is my all-time favourite. It has everything, family dysfunction, dark humour and deep heartbreak, it feels like a modern Greek tragedy. Nothing else can match it I think 👌🏻
Certainly up there with Mad Men as one of the best of all time.
Ex European here a settler family escaped from the feudalism of Europe working like dogs here to get into the good life. Some of my family made it I didn’t because I was more the peasant character in the Monty Python sketch called “ The Constitutional Peasant “ I rallied at injustice and betrayal to labour codes against cheap assed employers or pricks who redefine what clauses in a union contract mean. What I did notice beyond my moral indignation was how people still go subservient you know don’t rock the boat types. However when Covid came along I still had instincts that knew this was a con job. I didn’t know how far into totalitarianism the next years would go but once you see and feel the crush your heart turns sour to those who just went along even bitter as they now fall to Vaccine Injury. Also you weep for those you used to know because they remain locked in denial that is enabling further loss and a death spiral to freedom diversity and creativity. Just like the movie “ Wag The Dog “ how much are we being played with. What is reality now and what is theatre. You decide I have my vision and desires. I have big health issues to deal with and that is where I will focus. Hopefully family will realize the black sheep knows some shit before I am gone.
Hi Thomas? Are you in the US? I feel like there were pockets of freedom there in some parts, but overall yea pretty awful both in Europe and US. I now something of a heretic in my own family and friends, I’m getting used to it 😅
https://youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?si=Y02THmGdBiruZ322
I love Monty Python 😅🙌🏻
The hinterlands of Saskatchewan is where we live. Rural folk were more skeptical but the enlightened NDP types were all for the Bull shit.
I’ve always felt I was alone with thoughts like this. Now I know “ I’m not the only one “
You are not the only one Barbara, thank you for your comment 🙏♥️
Beautiful. Thank you for this .
Thank you Stephen 🙏
I wish I could add--but I couldn't without taking away.
Brilliant Trish.
Thank you Hugh! ☺️🙏
Nicely articulated, Trish.
Once we step off of the conveyor-belt of matrix-driven emotions, if we are serious-minded, it’s a gut punch, to the Solar plexus, time-after-time.
That’s why others who see us suffering the pain of the cognitive dissonance and the sense of injustice and vile indifference towards right-ness, goodness and so forth… they look away.
Back towards a more pleasing distraction, amply supplied by the matrix. Swipe. Flip. Click. “Ce cera cera, whatever will be …”.
Seriousness, on this level, is costly. A badge of honour, easily dismissed by frivolity. But worn as a refusal to go on unchanged.
Now The Journey begins. Interior. Exterior. Searching for inner and outer harmony, as the evident dissonance mocks at our seriousness: “What will you do to create change?”
What can we do?
Take the Narrow Path, through the Narrow Gate. Keep on walking. Keep on discerning. Keep on keeping on. Keep on resisting. Until you hear the clarity of a New Calling.
It won’t come easy. But it will set you apart. Serious? Sure: it’s Life and Death out there.
Choose Life.
Thank you Havakuk 🙏 I really like that “Take the Narrow Path, through the Narrow Gate. Keep on walking. Keep on discerning. Keep on keeping on. Keep on resisting. Until you hear the clarity of a New Calling.” Keep on discerning, and you’re right, it is costly, but in the long run it costs much more to avoid the truth. Love your words 🙌🏻
Thank you, Trish.
You might enjoy this, originally penned 20 years ago! Still walking on it …
https://open.substack.com/pub/writethevision/p/a-narrow-path-leading-to-life
Thank you 🙏 You are just right about the cynicism thing, it’s hard not to end up on that path too, I have to make a conscious effort to avoid that.
That’s the thing we sometimes miss: we avoid one thing, then don’t see another. Hence: Narrow Path dissecting. Few are those who find it. Keep on keeping on, Trish! See you along The Way!
Hope & Courage sister.