There are moments when our words can feel too little or too weak, our actions seem to fall too short. It’s like moving through endless water, wading, and wondering, do our choices actually create change. Are our written words ever read, our raised voices really heard. Do the images and videos and quotes we post and share do any good. The answer is yes. Yes. It all matters. Everything matters. Every choice we make ripples through these muddy waters and is felt by everyone in this great ocean with us.
What happens when the greasy trigger finger of one blind cop shatters the spirit of a million voices, when more people fall under the streams of bullets from someone so young and so sure. Can the waves of these atrocities that wash over us drown us out. No. We are only human, so we do what we must. We hold our breath, we go under, we feel the wave with all its might pass over us. Maybe it swallows us, maybe it pulls us so low we think we will never rise again, maybe it slams us into the shore breathless and bleeding. But we are not so easily washed away. We are the masses and we are here and we will stay till this is done.
For today’s meditation, find silence, find what peace you may, and when you come up for air, find your ripple. Its time to make your own wave.
Today’s Video: one of hope… cause we need it now
Daily Protest: Find one thing that you can do today or this week to change the smallest bit of racism in your immediate surroundings. Inspect your daily life, if you don’t think you see it, look to the media, so much has happened this week. Choose one community creating change and support them. Every little ripple in this movement matters, we cannot sit still right now.
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