GWDF2 Day 4 - Extreme Emergency. Help me. GW's Death Fast

Day 4 - Extreme Emergency. Help me. GW's Death Fast

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Day 4 - GW's Death Fast  Extreme Emergency

I don't know if I heard this properly, but what I think I understand is that, an extreme financial emergency has arisen, which I may or may not be in a position to cover.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, your only hope.  You remember how we ran laughing out of the theater with that line, how ludicrous, how ridiculous.  That's not how it happens, one man.  Oh so silly.

No sillier than one ignition system is the difference between someone getting to the hospital on time in  an ambulance or dying in an immobile ambulance.  Never think that a committed individual can’t change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.  A fire starts with a match. Maybe one match lights another. Maybe one match lights a candle.  I hope I’m that match because I don't see any others, no discredit to  anyone else, no credit to me.  That's the physics of it. I hope I'm one of millions of matches but I don't see another one. 

My entire life, my entire adulthood has been based on running toward collapsing organizations while everyone else was running out, and if I thought the situation was savable, finding just one or two or three, at most four others, that whether or not they realized it were yearning for the fire that I could help ignite in them.  Everything was there in them, they just needed a little extra heat, a little extra imagination, a little extra help with the vision.  And repeatedly throughout my adulthood I've been associated with miracles through that process. 

So I've been at this, joyfully giving every breath for humanity, for about a dozen years now. It's been for the last eight months, only within the last eight months have I seen a candle ready to be lit.  Everything there already, smoldering, and that’s the young man that I spoke of yesterday, planetary spring at gmail dot com. 

If I understand correctly what I heard last night, what always happens in every unviolent revolution, what always happens in every unviolent revolution, our dearest loved ones are the first ones to split away from us.  Usually it's temporary; agonizing years, but almost always it’s temporary.  I'm thinking of maybe the greatest activist of the last 2/3 of the 20th century, Dave Dellinger, went to Yale, his father was in  charge of Republicans in Boston, was a prominent lawyer, and before Dave graduated Yale he had left, lived among the homeless at the time of the depression I think, out in the fields, in the camps, not as a do-gooder, but as a brother.  He became one of them; he became aware he was one of them and they of him; not a dime in his pocket, and that ended his relationship with his father.  Until years later, on his  deathbed, or at the time of his dying, when his dad was dying, his dad said, ‘Dave you were right.  I'm so proud of you.’ 

It always happens when the revolution starts, a nonviolent revolution. Stressors – split folks apart. It's because someone saw, became part of the new paradigm.  So, like their dearest loved ones are going to ‘get it,’ at the same time?  No.  They’re the least likely because their dearest loved ones feel the most threatened; threatened for fear for their loved one, threatened for an unrecognized fear of their own paradigm being threatened, their own status quo being threatened. 

If I understand correctly this one bright hope that I’ve seen, this one bright hope for humanity as the creator is my witness, as Luke Skywalker was the only hope, as Neo was the only hope, this young friend is the only hope that I see on earth right now; as a match, as a candle I see the only hope to ignite others. 

And if I understand correctly one of his dearest loved ones who bless their hearts have been financially backing him, backed out, out of fear for this young friend; out of a difference of vision. 

Last I knew this young friend was leaving on a mission he conceived of, to travel the country via bus to rally people to come on waves of hunger strike, to DC, end of this year.  Nothing short of that will save we canaries in the coal mine in which you live; we Bangladeshis, we indigenous Alaskans, we indigenous Canadians from Athabasca, we of the island nations like the Maldives. 

And I didn't see it till yesterday or the day before - we are your canaries in the coal mine, earth, that you live in.  If you don't stop the killing of us with your burning of coal and oil and natural gas you will have killed your children and grandchildren.  If you let we canaries die in the coal mine, then the same process that killed the canary first, will kill you.  I didn't see that that's exactly what we are - we are your canaries in the coal mine. I being a Bangladeshis, an Athabascan, an indigenous Alaskan, a Maldivian. 

The last I knew this young man's plans were to be on a bus traveling to the most promising parts of the country, where evidence of humanity taking a stand against environmental Armageddon was already in some evidence. 

Now it may be that what I understand was that he thought he had his funding enough to get solar panels for the work that I do, and that that funding is no longer available.  As I reported yesterday, it may be that for some reason I don't understand, the solar panel that I have is working properly.  Now I should know conclusively today or tomorrow. 

In any case, if I'm understanding correctly, everything I have is now at this young friend's disposal.  Within hours of understanding more clearly, the solar battery that I've been praying for, saving for for years I’ve had for two weeks now.   It can be on eBay in a matter of hours and get probably $200.  If the solar panel in fact is working, it can be on eBay within hours and fetch $200 I’ll guess. 

I have three or four friends, not acquaintances, friends.   A friend is one who will take a bullet for you, unconditionally, and when she heard yesterday that the work I do was in dire need of a solar panel, within hours sufficient funds were in my checking account.  Breathtaking goodness.  Breathtaking goodness.  Unless I hear from her immediately those funds will be available to this young friend.  I see no hope beside this young friend’s mission.

Did I say the mission will succeed?  Did I say I'm a fool, an idiot?  I'm not God.  But I have, through no credit to me, what we are number one dying for, and as I've often said, I thought the number one thing was heart, was courage; and I'm now realizing that number is the number one thing we’re dying from is a failure of imagination, a fundamental profound failure of imagination.  And mine is working fine.  This failure of imagination is most dire, most pronounced relative to environmental Armageddon, environmental holocaust due to the continued no charge dumping of all future killing fossil fuel emissions.  A fundamental failure of imagination, fundamental failure of vision. 

This young friend is evidencing some of the necessary vision.  Make no mistake, I take no responsibility for this young man as the hope that he represents.  I saw it the first time we had a serious conversation, maybe it was the first time we met, I don't recall.  It was on or about New Year's Eve of 2011 in McPherson Square Park where we spoke for an hour so.  Trained in environmental science, a heart that’s is the product of heartbreak, hardships, the immense love of a father, and the immense love of a mother.  I’ve simply been the sunshine to this rare and promising young tree.  Planetary spring at Gmail dot com.   

I urge anyone with a heart, anyone with any young people that they love, to get in contact with planetary spring at Gmail dot com - the subject line should speak of financial assistance.  And inquire as to what financial assistance is required.

If my beloved friend that provided funding yesterday for new solar panels objects to me diverting it to this young man's work I need to hear that right away.  Otherwise young friend, everything that I have except for my laptop, except for the Wi-Fi, is available for immediate liquidation.  And the funds that I was given yesterday may be available as well. 

If you understand what's at stake young friend you will not let pride, discomfort, you will not let anything come in the way of accessing those funds.

You need to be strong.