When the Ground Trembles: Remembering Our Humanity in a Shifting World

Where is our grounding when the whole of Earth rocks beneath our feet?

At times like these, it feels like the very foundation of who we are ,

as individuals, as a species, is shaking loose.

Are we meant to hold on… or let go?To fight… or to bear witness?

Where is our center? Our compass? How do we orient ourselves in a world like this?

The future feels both inevitable and unknown.

What’s right and what’s wrong anymore?

The confusion is intentional, designed to divide and disorient.

And yet, even in the noise, our hearts still whisper what isn’t right.

At least for those of us who still feel.

I feel it all.

The readiness to go to battle and the helplessness of not knowing how.

What can I do, what can any of us do , to make an impact against such vast injustice?

The David versus Goliath story feels too small now.

Goliath has grown massive, relentless, mechanized.

And yet… maybe that doesn’t make the fight impossible.

Maybe it just makes it more human.

What is the role of the deep feelers, the lovers, the storytellers in times like these?

It's this:

To remember.

To hold the memory of humanity.

To tell the stories of who we were, who we are, and who we must never forget to be again.

Because as things evolve, as systems shift, as machines rise, as the lines blur between truth and illusion, there will be efforts to make us forget.

And that is how we lose.

We lose ourselves to find ourselves again.

Over and over.

It’s messy. It’s painful.And sometimes it feels unbearable to witness.

Why must rebirth always demand destruction?

Why must so many die for us to begin again?

What kind of existence is this, where the cost of remembering is suffering, and the path to peace is through chaos?

I don’t know the answers.

But I do know this:

we must not turn away.

The lovers, the dreamers, the storytellers, we are the keepers of humanity’s light.

And even when the ground shakes, even when the world forgets,

we are here to remind it how to feel again.

Melanie Federline 10/12/2025