Your altruism will die with you if you donβt understand how other people move.
Try harder young person. The old people have given up all hope.
Your altruism will die with you if you donβt understand how other people move.
Try harder young person. The old people have given up all hope.
You have to survive to heal. See the issue? #america -severely, the left
There is very little I could do differently, even if I wanted to.
I hope when I am not here anymore, that is understood
I sometimes wish I could love smaller or quieter. I wish I could expect less.
But if I did any of that I would be someone else.
Still,
Iβm tired of all of us with open hearts bleeding to death out here.
Some of us cannot help but bleed all of ourselves out into the atmosphere, hoping that someone actually understands.
Itβs rare for anyone to understand and rarer still to find people who stop the bleeding.
I doubt, very much, that I learned as much as I should have from this exercise: itβs only even now that I really understand what the lesson was. And I believe the lesson was far too late, tbh.
Years ago, a poet friend of mine asked me to write about what I loved. To describe it in great detail. Then the last step of the prompt was to bury it.
It was a hard lesson in putting so much of myself into anything.
I donβt anticipate being here much longer, but for the time I have left here, can I just ask if we can as a whole, do better?
Being tagged in and erased in the same post is weird.
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
Theyβre all for states rights until states rights are blocking their fascist agenda.
White people have to start dismantling white supremacy. Period.
Nuance: I still donβt want to die.
Additional nuance: there is also a baby in Gaza who did not want to die this morning.
White women are the most protected class, but they are upholding white patriarchy
-severely, the left
Do you want good soldiers or good people?
And by the way, that doesnβt stop when they turn 18.
It doesnβt even stop when youβre dead.
Your job isnβt to protect outdated ideas. Your job is to listen and to help them to make the world they want.
Ask more questions about the world they want and why.
Your job is to be a guide, not a prison guard.
And for the most part, they know better than you do.
People who want to βprotectβ children: from their bodies, their hearts, their spirits, do not want to protect them. They want to control them.
They want to keep them locked in the same choices and patterns that they had.
Thereβs a lot of people out here believing that they are thinking straight when their hearts arenβt open.
My teacher reminded me of what an open heart does for your brain today.
And I needed to remember that.
And we will be worse for it. Forever worse.
We will lose them to somewhere else because we are entitled and selfish as a culture, and because most people are too terrified to say βNo more,β in a language in which these monsters can hear it.
He said he is considering moving to Canada, transferring there with his job because itβs easier than trying to stay.
All of this is garbage. Give us your poor, your tired, your hungry. And these young people are elite.
Talked to a rider today who is here on a visa, and whose coworkerβs visa was revoked today.
Read up on HR 22 and call your reps. Especially if youβre in a conservative district. Please.
I used to think I understood people.
I do not. Understand. People.
I do not understand people, at all.
And mostly, thatβs fine.
Trump has said that he wonβt rule out seeking a third term in the White House β even though this is explicitly blocked by the Amendment.
But make no mistake: this is all part of Trump's bigger plan to usher in a dictatorship. Watch. youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?...
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now β before there is no one left to speak out.
Not every act of resistance has to be enormous.
Some are simply acts of love, acts of care, acts of solidarity.
We are all in this together.
Time to act like it.
Am again working on my language skills.
Am making it a point to play multilingual playlists in my car mostly always.
Have made it a point to have instructions in my car in English and Spanish (I know not enough, but gotta start somewhere.)