So utterly apt; as much or more so than a year ago. This is a stirring piece, with your words and those of Heaney and Judge Luttig. We need belief. We need hope that there can be a "tidal wave of justice." May it be so.
that poem was amazing, as was this whole post thank you for writing it.
My fav lines:
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
What i struggle with is the thick shawl of cynicism I've got over me these days. I watched the hearings and freaked out at all the testimony but I truly dont know if anything will get done about it, and sort of have to assume that it won't so as to not get my hopes up. Idk. How do you stay positive and hopeful about it ??
I like this very much. I like that it starts with self-healing, aligning with the internal belief that miracles and cures can be located, accessed and integrated. You are right that facts speak volumes however, there has been a concerted effort to discredit facts as fake. Those who don't care about democracy, because they never studied it, never identified with it, never knew personally what the opposite of democracy could do to them, their loved ones, and their lives are at the mercy of potent sound bites that attract their simplistic attentions. We never thought we would return to a time where this country could go so far backwards in such short a time. Thank you for posting this and being that wise, honest voice contributing to the conversation about our choices of today!
Writers like you are what got me through the last 8 years and what will keep getting me through! Thank you for sharing truth and hope.
So utterly apt; as much or more so than a year ago. This is a stirring piece, with your words and those of Heaney and Judge Luttig. We need belief. We need hope that there can be a "tidal wave of justice." May it be so.
that poem was amazing, as was this whole post thank you for writing it.
My fav lines:
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
What i struggle with is the thick shawl of cynicism I've got over me these days. I watched the hearings and freaked out at all the testimony but I truly dont know if anything will get done about it, and sort of have to assume that it won't so as to not get my hopes up. Idk. How do you stay positive and hopeful about it ??
I like this very much. I like that it starts with self-healing, aligning with the internal belief that miracles and cures can be located, accessed and integrated. You are right that facts speak volumes however, there has been a concerted effort to discredit facts as fake. Those who don't care about democracy, because they never studied it, never identified with it, never knew personally what the opposite of democracy could do to them, their loved ones, and their lives are at the mercy of potent sound bites that attract their simplistic attentions. We never thought we would return to a time where this country could go so far backwards in such short a time. Thank you for posting this and being that wise, honest voice contributing to the conversation about our choices of today!
Very appropriate for the day and the times. Hopefully duty and honor win over lies, power, and greed.