Wow. You needed to write this post. I needed to read this post. I will print the words of Wajahat Ali and your eight items as a daily reminder to dance the dance that will keep us interconnected and whole. Thank you.
I am silent in the brilliance of your writing and the words of Wajahat Ali, and am in tears for the beauty of it all. I love the way you affirm others even in the brilliance of your own writing, and how you weave witness and hope together so beautifully in the dance. And the story is perfect. I say this every time, because I mean it. Thank you Kaitlin for raising the level of my hope.
This is just so good, Kaitlin. So good as you always are. It brings to mind a toxic way community organizers have traditionally been ID-ed as qualified -- that they are angry. The lack of emotional intelligence to balance anger with joy, hope, love...it's so much of why this field has produced a lot of harm, a lot of toxic white men, and traumatized a lot of extremely talented BIPOC leaders. Yes toward the integration of our full humanity in the fullness of the beauty and terror of the world as it is, as we long for it to be, and as we strive to embody that healed being!
I love the photo by Robert Collins. The sculpture embodies your theme in a way that makes it all seem possible to me: holding multitudes, soaking in beauty, committing again to planting seeds for our future world.
Wow. You needed to write this post. I needed to read this post. I will print the words of Wajahat Ali and your eight items as a daily reminder to dance the dance that will keep us interconnected and whole. Thank you.
Tears over all of it. May we be gardeners. Thank you for this today.
I join you, @Kaitlin Curtice, and sink deep roots in these actions:
* keep crying
* keep reading stories
* keep entering into relationships that change you and care for you
* keep listening to Mother Earth
* let yourself be angry
* let yourself have some hope
* trust the dance between the two
* remember and relish complexity
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
“Tears over all of it” ❤️
I am silent in the brilliance of your writing and the words of Wajahat Ali, and am in tears for the beauty of it all. I love the way you affirm others even in the brilliance of your own writing, and how you weave witness and hope together so beautifully in the dance. And the story is perfect. I say this every time, because I mean it. Thank you Kaitlin for raising the level of my hope.
Yes please! Thank you for your searing honesty in all of life.
That list and this whole post is everything. Thank you. ♥️
Yes, yes, yes. I would’ve cried, too.
I too, hold hope for the future. I agree that it's important to express the anger and sadness we feel - because we care. Thank you for sharing.
This is just so good, Kaitlin. So good as you always are. It brings to mind a toxic way community organizers have traditionally been ID-ed as qualified -- that they are angry. The lack of emotional intelligence to balance anger with joy, hope, love...it's so much of why this field has produced a lot of harm, a lot of toxic white men, and traumatized a lot of extremely talented BIPOC leaders. Yes toward the integration of our full humanity in the fullness of the beauty and terror of the world as it is, as we long for it to be, and as we strive to embody that healed being!
I love the photo by Robert Collins. The sculpture embodies your theme in a way that makes it all seem possible to me: holding multitudes, soaking in beauty, committing again to planting seeds for our future world.
This was an amazing read. I felt it and it made me cry. Like you wrote, it doesn't take much these days. Thankyou!