The world keeps spinning. So does my head. I’m finding it hard to make sense of what has happened in the US this past week. Everything I have ever believed in; fairness, equity, social justice, minority rights, honesty, kindness – all the things I have fought for my whole life, have been brutally dismembered and thrown on a scrapheap.
Where does it leave us when the very rule of law, commitment to international law enshrined in conventions, treaties and standards is eroded and the rich and powerful can make self-serving decisions indiscriminately? There will be no impartiality of the judiciary, no checks and balances, no recourse. We are entering a dog-eat-dog era where people are pitted against each other, where you are either with me or against me. Either or. No nuance.
This is not a world I can believe in. Nor is it a world I want to live in. So, I will keep taking a stand for decency, compassion and tolerance. And I continue to find solace in Anne Lamott’s words that “Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”
Amen to that!
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Amen to that too.
I’m in love with hope.
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Depressing! Hits home painfully.
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Sometimes we feel like crawling into our shells and other times it feels right to shout from the rooftops!
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So true. Both responses have their place.
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