This is an incredible film. I took a break from watching it to write. I had an idea come to my mind the other night and this film is inspiring me to write about it finally.
The world is going through a crisis right now. Yet, there have been many countries, such as in Africa, Latin American, the Caribbean, and the Middle East who face severe and dire crisis on a daily basis.
Now that the Western world is having to face a crisis unprecedented since the Second World War and the Great Depression, the Covid is giving the West a glimpse of what suffering is.
There are things that you can do within your communities to help one another, no matter where you live, the poor from your homes and your neighborhoods. Gardens will be coming into fruition and there is always an abundance of vegetables, especially squash.
Having lived in California all of my life, fruits trees are in abundance in the yards of many families and the majority of the fruit falls to the ground and rots. It is such a great waste, when there are people that go hungry in this world and people who will be going hungry in your communities if this situation does not change soon.
Many neighborhoods have community newsletters. Begin to organize and if you have fruit trees and vegetables from your garden work collectively to share. Now, is a good time to begin to plant if you do not have a garden. Order what you need online and begin a garden and plant extra so that you may help others.
What your community does not use, then call your nearest food banks and churches that distribute food and donate what you can. Go out to those fruit trees and collect the lemons, oranges, apples, pears, plums, etc. and make them part of your neighborhood collective or donate them. Food banks are always in a shortage and it will be worse with the Corona virus. There will be more people in need than ever.
This is the Western world's opportunity to work together and depend on each other and to reach out and help others. Westerners are so accustomed to running to the grocery store were there has always been an abundance of food. This year will be different so why not being to prepare and begin to become more self-sufficient and helping others at the same time.
Remember, that, as I stated earlier, there are peoples of many nations, who face challenges we cannot even begin to imagine daily. Well, it is time for the West to rise up and learn to live what it is like for others and to do all that we can to ease the situation for as many as we can.
Do not let that fruit fall and rot, get out there and grow for your family and for others, work together. Become better neighbors and citizens, not only of your own country, but a better world citizen as well. You are home now, many are home now, so there is no excuse if you are able to get out even with a small patch of dirt. If you do not have patches of dirt then use crates or whatever you can to create a garden.
Becoming self sufficient is a good thing and it is healthy. This is an opportunity for the Western world to reach out, help yourselves, and help others. Work with your communities and your food banks. Offer free fruit in front of your homes, whatever it takes. Do not let this confine us to non action, use this as a time for action. Do not fear. For fear will only deter you from doing what you can do.
I hope that you will watch this trailer and then find the movie and watch it. It will wake you up and it will hopefully give you inspiration, and to realize, just how fortunate most of the West is. And, remember, that we do have poor and many. Do not let them to suffer. Please reach out and do all that you can.
With great love, hope, peace, and love,
Maria Joan Juarez Hidalgo Beam (Boheme)
Musical Selections: Reach Out and Make the World a Better Place
A Better Place/Playing for Change/Song Around the World
"Ngati Mphepo Yofika Konse" - "God is as the wind which touches everything"
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