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             Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)

This is perhaps in this time in our global historical status, probably one of the most challenging to incorporate in our daily lives.  As I see it this tenant of Kwanzaa has to start in our homes.  We have to learn as a family how to manage and expand our resources that each member of the family brings to the “Family Tribe”.  WE have to teach our children how to be good stewards of the gifts they have been endowed with and how to be work together as a family to set up our own cooperative economic system that works for our family.  Our families need to be fiscally sound and have the resources that will sustain us not just economically, but we have to create the substance of the elements that bind us together that are eternal, fortified with love and devotion to who we are as a family. 

When we have strong and vital families, we have strong and thriving communities.  When we have strong and thriving communities, we have a country that is built and operates on the premise that the health and welfare of our families and communities are our priority and everything else is done in alignment with that foundational priority. 

The very act of doing things in cooperation with one another is the saving grace for not just our families but is key to our world being in alignment so that we as global citizens support the wellbeing of our humanity at large.  WE have such an amazing opportunity to share our resources amongst our selves throughout this planet because each nation and every culture has something of value to share.  We can if we have a meeting of the minds, eradicate so many ills that are plaguing our world.  We just need to extend ourselves and manifest abundance globally!  We have enough people of wealth now we need to ensure that all of humanity has the resources they need to not just survive, but to thrive. 

Can we get a little cooperative engagement and design cooperative economic systems that support all of mankind?  I know this is possible!  It starts with what we practice in our individual lives and what we teach our children.  Our old paradigm of how to operate in this world is no longer relevant or useful in this new world order.