You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
—Opening lines of Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese
We’re living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don’t work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.—Ann Richards
Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.—Brené Brown
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.—Michelle Obama, from Becoming
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.—Robin DiAngelo
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
It is for you to protect others. So if two people wear masks, I’m protecting you and you’re protecting me.—Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
—Florence Nightingale
God put a rainbow in the clouds.—Maya Angelou
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.—Anne Lamott
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
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