Dear Hillary

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Dear Hillary,

Last evening, I was very encouraged by the presence and adult discussion of the Democratic candidates for President. Your presence and cool poise, and that pragmatic commonsense streak which is your default position was very much in evidence.  I was, however, particularly interested in your reaction to Bernie’s heart generated comments regarding your “damn emails.”

Your reaction was a spontaneous heart driven response. That’s how the heart functions. It knows. It knows without any data or intellectual inputs.

You actually revealed your heart. It has been rather hidden. I suspect that that was a price you had to pay to operate in the kinds of environments where Tough, Hardnosed and what were frequently mistaken for “pragmatic decisions” dominated and where the heart, if it dared to show itself,  was seen in the archaic male generated dogma that was used eons ago to get Woman out of the way as weak and soft and not able to make tough decisions. Your heart did not choose to vote for the war.

If, as you claim, you really want to do a service for Woman, bring your heart on-line. It was Bernie’s heart driven reaction to injustice, bullying, and yes abuse of a woman (Can you imagine these ignoramuses, going after a man’s emails like that?) that spoke for you in those moments.

Well Hillary, as you know from much, much experience, the heart understands things on levels that the mind cannot even imagine. The skills that you have gained from your training will only reach their real potential when you bring your heart back on-line because the heart can see the path which lies between.

Men also beat the heart in men into some kind of quiescence. We, many of us, have experienced ignoring our natural heart understandings of situations and listened to our minds only to see the our hardnosed pragmatic” decisions disintegrate and lead to the same problems, sometimes in the very same forms.

 I suspect that you will win the nomination and election Hillary, but the Nation, the Planet needs a new Way. Cool poise, and sharp intellects, cannot really see the pragmatic way. These skills are invariably effected by personal agendas on various levels, and pragmatic means what will work for this or that most powerful special interest.

For the heart, pragmatic means what will best serve the Common Good and the General Welfare. It takes a kind of feminine sensitivity to not only understand this but to have the courage to put it into action. You can do this.

Lots of love

-tom