that last night thousands of us filled the bridge and stopped the traffic and knelt in the street with our hands in the air to protest the murder of george floyd and the oppression of black people in america, to chant that there would be no justice without peace and that black lives matter.
to suggest attention to and gratitude for small things you value in the world as a tactic, not because the society we live in is just and fair and perfect, but because so much in the world is horrible and wrong and we have to remind ourselves of love
to understand that the ability to be able to inhabit that mindset, to appreciate the little things, to be mindful, is a product of privilege and comfort, is not something that everyone in our societ has access to, and to try to be a part of the movement to push back the conditions that make that so.
that a better future is possible |
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