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“Watching you hold your hatred for such a long time I wonder: Isn’t it slippery? Might you not someday drop it on yourself? I wonder: Where does it sleep if ever? And where do you deposit it while you feed your children or sit in the lap of the one who cherishes you? There is no graceful way to carry hatred. While hidden it is everywhere.”
~ Alice Walker

there’s no hiding the heaviness of it, the inability to contain it once it is out, setting fire with words, hands, & steps. but it’s easy, isn’t it? at first? maybe the reason so many fall for it.but please love, friends. instead of hate, please love. even through the harm, the cruelty, the suffering – not in spite of it – but ever more because of it. love the immigrant, the trans person, & all who are living in fear, who can’t remember their sacredness because their very embodiment is being devalued & dismissed. they are Christ in disguise. so love in this dark moment, when others choose hate. love gently & tenderly, with conviction & ferocity, with open hearts & strong backs, upright & present.or else life as we hope it to be, will be destroyed.

~j

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