Diversity

Diversity, peace, tolerance.

What does this mean to me?

As I survey the ragged resilient

Australian bushland,

dawn chorus,

sun scorched banksias

seeds feeding families

of black cockatoos - Kaarakin -

red tails flashing in flight

against a brilliant blue sky

I ask myself,

what can one woman do?

12th February 2025

This is my response to the increasing realisation that all is not well in the World as we observe current events in the United States that are causing extreme levels of anxiety in many and disrupting the lives, livelihoods and safety of many more. President Trump and Elon Musk, in new DOGE role are initiating the right-wing Project 25 objectives in a flurry of executive orders of the utmost stupidity and danger to global stability. The illegality and temerity of their actions is beyond words at the point.

So taking my own 'best counsel', I walk. My mind cooperates and the sure power of nature fires up a determination to resist the conclusion that we are powerless and unable to change and challenge injustice with our words and actions.

Stumbling on John F Kennedy's quotes, I am struck by how pertinent they are for Americans at this time, and how utterly poignant.

I feel the need to keep writing at this point, to co-construct a hive-mind story, a collective response with others similarly caught seemingly powerless and unable to challenge the injustices we are watching unfold in front of us on the news.

• "One person can make a difference and everyone should try."

• "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

• "If we cannot end now our differences at least we can help make our World safe for diversity."

• "If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the World

  safe for diversity" - John F Kennedy