“Snow and Dirty Rain”

It has been a busy but calm week. I feel grounded into what keeps me present, letting the positive and negative emotions come and go as they need. I am playing around with many ideas and keeping a list of the many questions I want to research.

Today my offering is a poem by Richard Siken’s Crush titled “Snow and Dirty Rain”. The highlighted line is one that has stuck with me for quite some time and consistently becomes more relevant.

There is no denial that there is dark and light in this world- moments of sweet generosity that bring tears to my eyes contrasted by cruel violations of human rights. I don’t know if one can exist without the other, but I hope that we come to a place to reduce the number of destructions that we are capable of inflicting onto each other, the land, and all of its inhabitants.

To keep my sense of gentleness in these times is a holy act. There are plenty who deserve it, who don’t realize they need it, or have been missing it for some time now.

Yes, use our voice. Yes, fight back against the wrongs. But it means little if we are not taking time to foster a community in which we see and support one another. Remember what and who we fight for. Find each other. We can be the crossroads- the liminal space where time pauses. Using our gentleness and love to fight and guide the choices that shape outcomes.

I will not be cold and wither; I will be warm and grow stronger. Let us come together to create more of what we want to see in the world.