From the friendly caves of Pixie Hollow.

Darling human of the Earthly realm, how important is your human connection to you?

Recently a friend of mine shared with me a quote from that remarkable author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was from his brilliant book, The Gulag Archipelago, which I admit I haven't read in this lifetime. My last reading of it was in a life past, many moons ago.

In this quote, Solzhenistyn wrote about how Stalin had rounded up whole quarters of cities.

About how the people in the cities cowered in their houses, fearing every bang, every knock, every noise.

When if they had instead gathered themselves together in a single house on every street, armed with knives, hammers, pikes, and whatever else they could manage, they would have been left alone. Or, at the very least, Stalin's military would have reconsidered what they were doing. And Stalin himself would have realised that he wasn't Almighty God.

Solizhenitsyn stated, baldly and blandly:

We didn't value our freedom enough.

Sharp, isn't it.

Makes you think of Danistan's new dictatorship, doesn't it.

And if it doesn't make you consider the communities of indigenous being rounded up and shipped off to camps in the Northern Territory, then it ought to. (Because they are. Truth is inconvenient, isn't it.)

I'm not going to write from cosy little Pixie Hollow any judgements of any kind about the Human ways.

Except to point out to you today, on this glorious day just ahead of the summer solstice, one little thing:

Human connection isn't a social media post.

It's actually reaching out to people directly.

I get it, direct mail isn't sexy. People think it's expensive (it isn't). Businesses assume that they have to save trees (because they don't know about FSC sustainable farming or recycled paper). Businesses assume that driving mail around is going to kill the world with carbon (even though carbon dioxide is critical to phytosynthesis and is therefore the gas of life). 

But if you're going to do anything in this world, human friend, make sure it's forging connections with others.

You can use your content to do that.

You can create the emotional conditions that cause others to want to be with you, near you, spending their hard-earned with you.

All you have to decide is whether it's valuable enough to you.

If it is, let's talk:

https://calendly.com/brutalpixie

~ Leticia "faerie show-er of the ways" Mooney