10 – Love is the Power for Eleanor Lives!

The first nine blog posts provide the path of Eleanor Lives!  We are following Eleanor down “a path less traveled by” and we welcome you to join us to make a difference for humanity. I didn’t break this path. I am following Eleanor and others down it. I’d like to travel with you.

We cannot continue down the path we are currently traveling – it leads to the ruin of our biosphere, the thin blue line of life encircling Earth, of which humans are a part; the expansion of the police state that infiltrates all aspects of our lives, monitoring what we do, and punishing us for daring to question authority, when we, the common people, are the authority for those who govern; the militarization of space, whereby we take our failed social order on Earth in which we spend over 1.5 trillion dollars a year preparing to kill and control each other, and move it out into interstellar spheres; the disparity of wealth to the point where 2% of the population own 80% of the entire planet; all of which lead to a genuine possibility of WWIII and the lack of well-being for the majority of people on the planet.

As Malcolm Gladwell has written: “The world we could have is so much richer than the one that we have settled for.”

What powers us to follow Eleanor down the path less traveled by? Love. It’s our ability to read and write that gives us the means; it’s love that gives us the power. Eleanor loved people. All of them. Same with King and Gandhi. This is true throughout the arts, as Lenny Kravitz sings, we are “Here to Love.”

It may seem trite, but love, like character and compassion, needs to be cultivated: Watered, nurtured, grown. More than anything else, Eleanor Lives! offers us the opportunity to focus and act together out of love. In under one minute you can demonstrate your love for yourself, for others and and for life on the planet we share.

And when, for the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 2023, we get on the same globe as “lights for rights” we travel from self-centered to what David Brooks has called “other centered.” In so doing, we accomplish what is best for ourselves, as well as those with whom we share Earth. To paraphrase Paul Coelho in the The Alchemist,   “When you conspire on behalf of the world, the world conspires on behalf of you.”