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Permission Slips
Activism & intimacy
So much political violence is predicated on our distance. It asks that we stay far away, put humans in categories, categories in boxes, fear those boxes, check them off, move on.
No.
When we are willing to get in close, we align ourselves with each other’s humanity. We say: we’re in this together, you and me.
Like a Shovel Hitting Stone
There are times when, by habit or determination, nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel (pick your back-breaking metaphor!), we are plugging along in our lives, and then, with a sudden thwack, we hit upon a truth we wish we’d never seen. Or maybe (if we are being honest) we’d been trying to avoid all along.