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a verdict of our time and of those using power to oppress.

and a call to conscience and loving action for the benefit of all who are suffering.

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#power #love #RichardRohr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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friends, i choose to live by vow. that is to say i am committed to a path & practice of love toward all without exception even as i stumble along this path. it’s a practice of love engaged in calling out cruelty & harm, bearing witness to the suffering it causes, working to end the harm & heal the suffering. it is unshakable. therefore, i will not debate cruelty. i will not debate harm. i will not abide with fascism. there is no “except” following the command to love our neighbor. one cannot expound, “for God so loved the world” & not mean the whole world & all within it. so if anyone, including friends, are aligned with these or practice apologetics for these, out of love i will meet them with silence, & wish them peace & freedom from suffering. we’ve come too far & crossed too many thresholds at this point in my view, to debate cruelty & harm, & to abide with any movement toward fascism. to engage in such a way at this point, as if cruelty & harm & fascism are legitimate, gives air to them & feeds the beast. i don’t see that as a beneficial use of my energy, or love.

may open hearts, wisdom, & love prevail in this time for the benefit of all.

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i will continue to mark the anniversary of Jan 6th as a day of remembrance & mourning. a day that showed clearly what may be to come, yet wasn’t honored as the warning it was. though there is continued effort to rewrite history and gaslight us regarding the riotous insurrection, i will continue to remember, i will continue to bear witness, i will continue to repost my reaction & thoughts from that day. i will honor the Capitol Police who died & who were injured.

history will remember. life itself will hold the memory.

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#Jan6th

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in our cruelty 

we become monsters.

in our love 

we are fully human.

~j

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#DontBeCruel #monsters #BeKind #BeHuman #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

friends, please take the time to listen to HCR’s explainer regarding this administration‘s actions towards Venezuela earlier today. it is only a half hour long, but gives historical context, including World War I & World War II along with the aftermath & the implementation of a rules based world order after those wars. of course she does so in her consistent very clear minded, clear voiced, sober & non-hyperbolic manner. it is important for all of us to understand context, both for our own country & for the world. knowledge & context helps us discern through the narratives being presented.

https://youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I

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sitting, heart open 

moon reflecting sunlight 

i offer my love.

may we make it our practice & path in 2026, to cultivate compassion as an antidote to cruelty, harm, & destruction.

may this new year connect us to community, holding us in friendship, light, & love.

happy new year, friends!

~j

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#NewYear2026 #CultivateCompassion #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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New Year’s Eve provides an auspicious opportunity to reflect on the previous year & prepare ourselves for the year that is beginning & i think we shouldn’t shy away from the deep questions. what connects me to others, to their joy, to their suffering? what & who invites my heart to open wider & wider to the world & life around me? how am i using my time? am i using the time i have to embody love, to shine light into the dark places in this world? who have i excluded from my love, from the tenderness & generosity of my heart? who have i not seen as my neighbor?who have i cast out? what can i do to bring them back in, to remind them that their lives are sacred, worthy, & cherished? no one can answer these questions for us. only we can answer this for ourselves. we are responsible & accountable for the words & actions we birth into this world. what world do we want to help create in the year to come? please allow & gift yourself some time today to sit somewhere quiet & look inward to the deep spaces of your heart. it is where the past is healed & reconciled, & seeds for the future are planted.

~j

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#NYE #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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the targeting of immigrants, of trans people, of those who are poor or sick, or marginalized & cast out for whatever reasons is targeting our neighbor. it is especially egregious because it attacks the very dignity of people. friends, we do not have the right to do that. we do not have the right to destroy the lives of people we do not understand, disagree with, or mistakenly see as “other” & that is what is happening now with this administration. people’s lives are being destroyed. 

a person’s dignity is inherent to their existence & life itself, a sacred birthright. we cannot say out of one side of our mouth “for God so loved the world” & then out of the other side of our mouth say “America First”, or deny someone’s lived experience as a sacred embodiment of life. to do so is playing God. it is the opposite of love. this is why i find it so offensive. such cruelty is an affront to life itself. we do not have the right to deny or remove the dignity of others, though in our attempt to do so we harm & cause suffering. it does seem, however, we do have the capacity in our acts of inhumanity, & our indifference to harm & suffering, to abandon our own dignity, & we are seeing this happen daily.

~j

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#dignity #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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sometimes it feels like those who align with cruelty, harm, & destruction have the upper hand, that they are winning the race. it can be easy to become cynical & give space to thoughts of defeat. but a world already suffering doesn’t need cynicism, it needs love. it needs people willing to keep their hearts open despite what they see or feel, willing to do good in the world, help & heal even when all seems lost, simply because it is needed. love meets us where we are, & the world in its need. while cruelty, harm, & destruction blindly race toward their envisioned finish, love wins the marathon. sometimes slow or even seemingly unseen, but always steady, persistent, resolved, & aligned with life.

so however dour things seem, however we may feel, we do our part. 

we do good anyway.

~j

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#DoGoodAnyway #calligraphy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we would never know the light without knowing darkness. so darkness is not our enemy. darkness, too, is our friend, guide, & teacher in this life. there is also a beautiful alchemy to darkness, a fertile space where all begins, where love works quietly & persistently as we rest. so like everything, we can include darkness on our path, knowing that within winter’s darkness, the seeds of spring await.

~j

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#WinterSolstice