Barbara Kingsolver
Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it's often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.
But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it's still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it's a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can't save everything all at once, but it's still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.
And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.
Links
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Movie: I’m Still Here
“We can’t just do nothing. Especially us… We have the means to help… One talks to the foreign press, another provides shelter for people, another delivers letters to families with no news. We do what we can.”
Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a fascist government. As people try to live normal lives, tanks roll down the streets, traffic stops and arrests are increasingly common.
