Dare to Be Happy

Happiness is the most revolutionary act you can embody. It's an act of defiance against the oldest superstition that fear keeps us safe. I read Naomi Shihab Nye's So Much Happiness, tell stories of my daughters' goddess trials in Greece, confess that I am ambushed by happiness, and look back 8000 years to the matrifocal Vinca civilization using the svastika in its script.

Third Paradigm on Substack: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/
How to Dismantle an Empire: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607