Welcome to the moonbeaming podcast.

I'm Sarah Faith Godestiner, an artist, author, and intuitive.

And together we'll explore life through a creative and spiritual lens.

You'll learn so much about mysticism, creativity, consciousness, depth psychology, business, and more.

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Welcome back to the show. I'm recording this on the evening after the day that Alex Prettie, an ICU nurse at a veterans hospital in

Minneapolis, Minnesota was murdered by ICE. So I'm feeling pretty raw. I've been on the internet a bit too much. And this murder is very

close to home because my partner is an ICU nurse who is in community with so many other

nurses and the sentiment among so many of them is that Alex died trying to help someone else.

Some of his last words were, are you okay?

And the sentiment is that they would be trying to help someone who needed it too.

And then, of course, I think about Brianna Taylor

because she was an emergency room technician.

She, too, had a vocation that was directly giving care to other people

and trying to save their lives. I think of Philando Castile, who was working in a school as a nutrition supervisor, helping children get the nutrients they need who is murdered in front of his girlfriend and his daughter.

I think about all the violence that has been enacted on innocent people

by the police, by the state now federally with ice, And it makes me so sad. And it makes me so angry. I think that we forget

where we have power. I think part of what sometimes happens to us in times of great uncertainty and

chaos is that we collapse because we forget that we have agency and we have power. I think

sometimes it is hard for those of us who are creative or who make art or who run small

businesses.

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