These numbers are making me physically ill.
I felt like I was surrounded by death last spring. This will be much harder. But pls resist the urge to let yourself harden in the face of this. Take emotional shelter when you need to, but also defend the parts of yourself that remember how to grieve for the people we've lost.
There are moments when I beg my brain to embrace the numbness or denial I see everywhere & when I think there is no way forward but to develop new, tougher layers. But it's never as simple as hardening or martyring ourselves to grief. It's just easier to think of it that way.
Because if it's a choice between detachment and being completely consumed by grief, who could blame us for turning away? But that's not the choice. There is a wide space between those things. We need to live in that space.
This is why I won't stop talking about people trapped in jails, prisons and detention centers. There is time to save many lives. There is atrocity happening. We won't be able to say we didn't know. Those mythologies always emerge, but we will all know it's a lie. Because we know.
If we leave all of those people for dead, including children in juvenile detention and immigration detention, there will be no undoing that atrocity. And while there may be a reckoning, but there will be no absolution. We know. We can do something. We have to own that now.
Even if you don't listen to today's episode or read the transcript, there are action items in the show notes that most of you can undertake today (or soon), some of them quickly. We have to live with what we do and don't do right now. #FreeThemAll truthout.org/audio/hunger-s…
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