just look at you, still here. Still swinging your breath like a lantern Light through this blackout season, still dragging your heart through headlines, hashtags, fright and hellfire Mondays— and somehow, in some way, you made it to this page.
That's no accident. That's no algorithm. That's your soul, stubborn as my grandmama's hymns, sustaining as her greens…pulling you back toward Light. That's no happenstance. It's no coincidence
that you are Whole.
So just breathe…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
Not the tight, rushed breath you use to argue with the world or curse the trolls, but the deep one— the kind that says, "I'm safe, even if the system swears I ain't." The kind that tells your nervous system, we are not in danger right now, Baby— we are in Destiny!
You are here, I am here–
WE got this isht!
So just breathe…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
And one day soon, you're gonna look back on all this— the chaos, the clutching, the nights you prayed your own name back to yourself, howling at the hollow moon— and you're gonna laugh, then cry, then say out loud to nobody and everybody:
"WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!
I made it through!!!!!!!!
And not just through— I made it into me again.
We—made it thru my dear Friend— WHEW…"
Because that's the truth, Love: you are not lost.
You've found your way, even if you've had to create it yourself.
You are layered, multifaceted and fine.
You are not broken. You are becoming… evermore MIRACULOUS.
Delicious…
Like strawberries, sandalwood, hand-rolled 'pinners' and honey wine in moonlight.
And the same Spirit that held you here… now…
Will hold you tomorrow,
until survival softens into freedom, and freedom stretches into flow with nothing to fear.
So just breathe…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
Just let this be your benediction: Your softness is safe here.
You are not alone.
Your fire is holy here.
Make this love your home.
Make your home this love.
Your story is worthy here.
And your "WHEW"— that divine inhale, that sublime exhale— is proof you were never alone…
Ahhhhh.... Thank you! That line came from about 2 weeks ago. My BP was up and I needed to calm and ground myself. It was late night. I took off my shoes and walked across the grass. To my surprise it was cool and wet... I said, "Ahhhh...this is feeding my Soul like Grandmama's greens..."
Thank you Linda... I wrote it as a part of a "survival guide" I'm wrapping up. When I read Marianne’s deeply moving...poignant piece here...I was moved to pluck it out and share it here.
you say it so well and the words vibrate in our brains and our hearts. Creator keep us calm and filled with the faith we need to witness the abuse and endure the lies. Thank you Marianne
I only wish there had been some way for me to more than 'like' this column, which echoes in many ways my own longstanding views on the history of our country, which has been soaked in the blood of innocents from its inception. Ask any Native American; ask any slave; ask the Chinese who built the Transcontinental Railroad in turn for scorn and crap wages. As the Mexicans who lived in the land that the US stole from their country of Origin, establishing a treaty whose terms the US violated, leaving them impoverished and exiled. Ask any woman who could not inherit the property she and her husband labored upon together before his death. And now, narcotized by idiot entertainments on TV, in sports, at the movies, in the performance arenas, and further numbed by drugs, including alcohol, we've looked the other way while these and other injustices, both subtle and over,t have become the very basis of our governmental policies. Yes, we have a lot to answer for, both individually and collectively. Oddly, though (and this will sound definitively odd), I believe there are indeed divine forces acting as a wind at our back as we begin to shed our illusions and struggle to live justly. I offer as evidence a vignette that keeps coming to mind: I had a good friend, years ago, wife of a university professor, from Missouri the 'show me state,' and as ordinary as unbuttered bread in her habits and demeanor. And, beginning at age 10 she found herself 'rolling out of her body' at night, as soon as she fell asleep, and finding herself at the site of one kind of disaster or another, helping other disembodied helpers escort the confused dead to a place that always looked like a 'big white airport departure lounge' where they'd be met by departed relatives and friends and head down one or the other of the boarding hallways, from which she herself was barred. In case you imagine she was making this up or it was a childhood fantasy, years later she and one of the others helping out saw each other in the cafeteria of a middle school and recognized each other immediately, reporting identical experiences. So, anyone reading this, faith is an oddball thing, too, and difficult, if we keep our minds closed. I won't report my own somewhat less dramatic but yet encouraging experiences of the divine here, but I've had any number of them, and I worked as a therapist for decades without arousing any suspicions as to my sanity. Open your eyes, your ears, and your hearts. Let them with eyes to see, see. And proceed from there to do everything possible to be part of the shift toward love, peace, and justice.
2 Chronicles 7:14. The verse reads in the King James Version: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land".
So empowering to read your words. How I wish that the gatekeepers could have realized just how much we need leaders like you - the world would already be a very different place.
As things are, on we go, each of us holding our own light until there are enough of us to light the whole way.
I love this. Spot on. As the Course in Miracles notes a miracle is a correction in error thinking. There's been a lot of error thinking in America from the very beginning. Maybe this is an opening, a portal, to correcting erroneous thinking. I spent this week in Canada and it was a very interesting experience. I spoke with so many who were deeply concerned, saddened, sickened by what is happening in the U.S. One woman actually cried. They are grieving too. And we are not alone.
It's been a full-on assault against those who were fighting for civil rights and achieved hard-won progress. I believe most people still support those ideals and the racists among us being empowered somehow was a deliberate act of sabotage. We still out-number them and hopefully their movement will continue to dwindle and die out while ours regains its momentum.
Like you say, the opposite of love isn’t hate it’s fear. I think maga is gripped with fear because more truth comes out every day how women are treated and paid how people of color are treated and paid how working people are treated and paid. there is a great debt that is building up and it has nothing to do with inflation
You articulate so brilliantly the genesis of our grief today and what it'll take to reclaim our collective democratic foothold as a country. Our karmic past may finally be catching up with us, which will require a lot of honest individual soul-searching, atoning, forgiving and healing. Thank you, MW.
It's important to realize that as any of us do that work, our efforts are pooled. All of our work goes into the same field of consciousness. What you or I or any of us as individuals can do is relatively tiny, but none of us are doing this for ourselves alone.A resonant, unified field is emerging. The crucifixion of our time is collective, and so is the resurrection.
I’d just to add that it’s critically important to get in the best physical shape possible. We must be strong. Work out. Lift weights Get fit. We need it. Dr. Dharma
No, Americans were not "busy doing other things."The Rockland County NY election fraud court case is evidence of that. And no, there was not poor Democrat voter turnout. What is your aim in insisting both to be true? Why lay that guilt trip on Americans, as if they weren't capable of understanding the gravity of the election?
The court case:
Parties: The suit was filed by SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, in a New York Supreme Court.
Allegations: The plaintiffs claim there were numerous irregularities in the 2024 election, including:
"Undervoting" for vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris: In multiple districts with high Democratic turnout, hundreds of voters reportedly cast ballots for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand but zero votes were recorded for then-Vice President Harris.
Mismatched independent votes: Affidavits from voters who supported independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare contradicted the official certified vote totals in Rockland County.
Statistical anomalies: Data analysis by a physics professor found the 2024 presidential election results in four of the five towns in Rockland County were statistically highly unlikely when compared to 2020 results.
Court action: In May 2025, a judge ruled that the allegations were serious enough for the case to proceed with the evidence-gathering stage, or discovery. The plaintiffs have since requested documents related to voting machines, software, and election procedures from the Rockland County Board of Elections
The red lights are blinking. Thank you Marianne for your call to action. “We need to think more deeply if we’re to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.” MW
Hey activists! When you first wake up, try this. "Let my mind be filled with light". Sure, thoughts will arise, but they will be born of light. And then, "Let my heart be filled with universal loving, kindness." And again, challenges will arise during the day, but you will know where your emotional home is and be able to return there.
The specifics that unfold from this soul infused consciousness are unpredictable, but you will know that the actions that they generate will support a divine plan that gets to unfold through you. Love you.
Truth does not need permission to speak. It needs your voice to amplify it. Just because the system is set up to hurt others, do not ever think it will not hurt you.
"WHEW"
by ElleBeah LB
Whew—
just look at you, still here. Still swinging your breath like a lantern Light through this blackout season, still dragging your heart through headlines, hashtags, fright and hellfire Mondays— and somehow, in some way, you made it to this page.
That's no accident. That's no algorithm. That's your soul, stubborn as my grandmama's hymns, sustaining as her greens…pulling you back toward Light. That's no happenstance. It's no coincidence
that you are Whole.
So just breathe…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
Not the tight, rushed breath you use to argue with the world or curse the trolls, but the deep one— the kind that says, "I'm safe, even if the system swears I ain't." The kind that tells your nervous system, we are not in danger right now, Baby— we are in Destiny!
You are here, I am here–
WE got this isht!
So just breathe…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
And one day soon, you're gonna look back on all this— the chaos, the clutching, the nights you prayed your own name back to yourself, howling at the hollow moon— and you're gonna laugh, then cry, then say out loud to nobody and everybody:
"WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!
I made it through!!!!!!!!
And not just through— I made it into me again.
We—made it thru my dear Friend— WHEW…"
Because that's the truth, Love: you are not lost.
You've found your way, even if you've had to create it yourself.
You are layered, multifaceted and fine.
You are not broken. You are becoming… evermore MIRACULOUS.
Delicious…
Like strawberries, sandalwood, hand-rolled 'pinners' and honey wine in moonlight.
And the same Spirit that held you here… now…
Will hold you tomorrow,
until survival softens into freedom, and freedom stretches into flow with nothing to fear.
So just breathe…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat it once more…
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN (INHALE hold it) 1…2…3…4… I am aware that I am breathing OUT (EXHALE let isht go)
Whew…
Just let this be your benediction: Your softness is safe here.
You are not alone.
Your fire is holy here.
Make this love your home.
Make your home this love.
Your story is worthy here.
And your "WHEW"— that divine inhale, that sublime exhale— is proof you were never alone…
So just breathe…
Yeah…
Baby–
Cry if you must. Laugh if you can. But breathe.
I am aware that I am breathing IN
(INHALE hold it)
1…2…3…4…
I am aware that I am breathing OUT
(EXHALE let isht go)
I am aware that I am breathing IN
(INHALE hold it)
1…2…3…4…
I am aware that I am breathing OUT
(EXHALE let isht go)
Repeat forevermore…
Whew…
© LUVLIWORDS 2025
I love the line, "stubborn as my grandmother's hymns, sustaining as her greens."
Ahhhhh.... Thank you! That line came from about 2 weeks ago. My BP was up and I needed to calm and ground myself. It was late night. I took off my shoes and walked across the grass. To my surprise it was cool and wet... I said, "Ahhhh...this is feeding my Soul like Grandmama's greens..."
It came up while that poem was flowing out...
Gift from Our Ancestors
💐
That is beautiful, as well. I am so grateful for the messages and words we recieve when we take time and energy to listen.
Beautiful🦋🙏🏽peace filled and safety bound💕🙏🏽💫
Thank you Linda... I wrote it as a part of a "survival guide" I'm wrapping up. When I read Marianne’s deeply moving...poignant piece here...I was moved to pluck it out and share it here.
It's an "experiment--mixing 2 modalities.
Bless YOU 🙏
you say it so well and the words vibrate in our brains and our hearts. Creator keep us calm and filled with the faith we need to witness the abuse and endure the lies. Thank you Marianne
I only wish there had been some way for me to more than 'like' this column, which echoes in many ways my own longstanding views on the history of our country, which has been soaked in the blood of innocents from its inception. Ask any Native American; ask any slave; ask the Chinese who built the Transcontinental Railroad in turn for scorn and crap wages. As the Mexicans who lived in the land that the US stole from their country of Origin, establishing a treaty whose terms the US violated, leaving them impoverished and exiled. Ask any woman who could not inherit the property she and her husband labored upon together before his death. And now, narcotized by idiot entertainments on TV, in sports, at the movies, in the performance arenas, and further numbed by drugs, including alcohol, we've looked the other way while these and other injustices, both subtle and over,t have become the very basis of our governmental policies. Yes, we have a lot to answer for, both individually and collectively. Oddly, though (and this will sound definitively odd), I believe there are indeed divine forces acting as a wind at our back as we begin to shed our illusions and struggle to live justly. I offer as evidence a vignette that keeps coming to mind: I had a good friend, years ago, wife of a university professor, from Missouri the 'show me state,' and as ordinary as unbuttered bread in her habits and demeanor. And, beginning at age 10 she found herself 'rolling out of her body' at night, as soon as she fell asleep, and finding herself at the site of one kind of disaster or another, helping other disembodied helpers escort the confused dead to a place that always looked like a 'big white airport departure lounge' where they'd be met by departed relatives and friends and head down one or the other of the boarding hallways, from which she herself was barred. In case you imagine she was making this up or it was a childhood fantasy, years later she and one of the others helping out saw each other in the cafeteria of a middle school and recognized each other immediately, reporting identical experiences. So, anyone reading this, faith is an oddball thing, too, and difficult, if we keep our minds closed. I won't report my own somewhat less dramatic but yet encouraging experiences of the divine here, but I've had any number of them, and I worked as a therapist for decades without arousing any suspicions as to my sanity. Open your eyes, your ears, and your hearts. Let them with eyes to see, see. And proceed from there to do everything possible to be part of the shift toward love, peace, and justice.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this story.
From my heart to yours...
2 Chronicles 7:14. The verse reads in the King James Version: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land".
So empowering to read your words. How I wish that the gatekeepers could have realized just how much we need leaders like you - the world would already be a very different place.
As things are, on we go, each of us holding our own light until there are enough of us to light the whole way.
I love this. Spot on. As the Course in Miracles notes a miracle is a correction in error thinking. There's been a lot of error thinking in America from the very beginning. Maybe this is an opening, a portal, to correcting erroneous thinking. I spent this week in Canada and it was a very interesting experience. I spoke with so many who were deeply concerned, saddened, sickened by what is happening in the U.S. One woman actually cried. They are grieving too. And we are not alone.
That chaordic moment you speak of.
If we make it so. Thanks for what you do.
Courageously and intentionally through the darkness to the light. ✨ Thank you Marianne. Brilliant.
So sad to see our country torn in so many ways and people in such disagreement morally…..
It's been a full-on assault against those who were fighting for civil rights and achieved hard-won progress. I believe most people still support those ideals and the racists among us being empowered somehow was a deliberate act of sabotage. We still out-number them and hopefully their movement will continue to dwindle and die out while ours regains its momentum.
Like you say, the opposite of love isn’t hate it’s fear. I think maga is gripped with fear because more truth comes out every day how women are treated and paid how people of color are treated and paid how working people are treated and paid. there is a great debt that is building up and it has nothing to do with inflation
You articulate so brilliantly the genesis of our grief today and what it'll take to reclaim our collective democratic foothold as a country. Our karmic past may finally be catching up with us, which will require a lot of honest individual soul-searching, atoning, forgiving and healing. Thank you, MW.
It's important to realize that as any of us do that work, our efforts are pooled. All of our work goes into the same field of consciousness. What you or I or any of us as individuals can do is relatively tiny, but none of us are doing this for ourselves alone.A resonant, unified field is emerging. The crucifixion of our time is collective, and so is the resurrection.
Excellent!
I’d just to add that it’s critically important to get in the best physical shape possible. We must be strong. Work out. Lift weights Get fit. We need it. Dr. Dharma
I hear that. We need to be athletes for this.
No, Americans were not "busy doing other things."The Rockland County NY election fraud court case is evidence of that. And no, there was not poor Democrat voter turnout. What is your aim in insisting both to be true? Why lay that guilt trip on Americans, as if they weren't capable of understanding the gravity of the election?
The court case:
Parties: The suit was filed by SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, in a New York Supreme Court.
Allegations: The plaintiffs claim there were numerous irregularities in the 2024 election, including:
"Undervoting" for vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris: In multiple districts with high Democratic turnout, hundreds of voters reportedly cast ballots for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand but zero votes were recorded for then-Vice President Harris.
Mismatched independent votes: Affidavits from voters who supported independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare contradicted the official certified vote totals in Rockland County.
Statistical anomalies: Data analysis by a physics professor found the 2024 presidential election results in four of the five towns in Rockland County were statistically highly unlikely when compared to 2020 results.
Court action: In May 2025, a judge ruled that the allegations were serious enough for the case to proceed with the evidence-gathering stage, or discovery. The plaintiffs have since requested documents related to voting machines, software, and election procedures from the Rockland County Board of Elections
The red lights are blinking. Thank you Marianne for your call to action. “We need to think more deeply if we’re to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.” MW
Hey activists! When you first wake up, try this. "Let my mind be filled with light". Sure, thoughts will arise, but they will be born of light. And then, "Let my heart be filled with universal loving, kindness." And again, challenges will arise during the day, but you will know where your emotional home is and be able to return there.
The specifics that unfold from this soul infused consciousness are unpredictable, but you will know that the actions that they generate will support a divine plan that gets to unfold through you. Love you.
Truth does not need permission to speak. It needs your voice to amplify it. Just because the system is set up to hurt others, do not ever think it will not hurt you.