A blog about using my anxiety and feeling of powerlessness and trying to convert it into something good
Recent blog posts
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The Case for Hope Pt. 3: How Sparks Become a Beacon
“To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.” – Thurgood Marshall I think everyone can feel that we’re sitting on a powder keg. Something is going to have to give, because this constant cycle of threats, ICE raids, economic disasters, cuts to services we’ve paid for through our taxes, and funneling
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The Case for Hope Pt. 2: The Cost of Despair
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.” – Elie Wiesel This post was almost just named “The Cost of Despair,” which I recently realized would have
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The Case for Hope
“I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I’ve been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair… you can’t tell the children that there is no hope.” – James Baldwin As I write this, we are about a month and a half into the FOTUS’s (Felon of the United
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Not Ready to Make Nice
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people?
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Getting Started
“The first step is the hardest.” – Marie Anne de Vichy Before I launch into sharing perspectives or giving advice, I should start out by clarifying that I’m far from an expert in activism or getting involved in political movements. For the last several years, I’ve tried hard to be an ally to the disenfranchised,
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All We Have to Decide is What To Do With the Time That is Given Us
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the
All We Have To Decide 