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Cristina's avatar

“May you stay devoted to becoming the kind of person a more beautiful and nurturing world is begging for.”

This was a beautiful read and much needed. Thank you Lisa! Something better is possible indeed.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

So glad it reached you <3

kirsikka Neskowin's avatar

To be absolutely honest, this is extraordinary and is helping me to a degree that would probably surprise you. Thank you, thank you.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

I'm so grateful. Thank you for reading.

Peg Conway's avatar

"The horror and heartbreak soothed by the profoundly moving and radically human displays of solidarity, community, organizing, and resisting."

Angelina Ruiz's avatar

you always know exactly what to say. thank you for this ❤️

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you for reading <3

Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

Ordinary us,

and part of an awesome whole.

That’s more than enough.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

More than enough <3 thank you.

Deedee's avatar

Keep caring and rebelling against the evil.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

May we all xx

Jamie Stemple-Buchman's avatar

Thank you, thank you, thank you! So beautiful!!!!!!!!! Thank you for writing something tethered in hope and beauty.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you for being here <3

Laci Hoyt's avatar

Beautiful. Thank you.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you, Laci. xx

Amy Brown's avatar

We aren't alone in this.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

We absolutely aren't <3

Margot's avatar

Thank you for this Lisa <3 Your words are healing and mean to much so me as a Minnesotan

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Sending you so much love and care. <3

Rachel Wild's avatar

You say "And while none of us know where we are headed"... and in a way it's true... but, in another way, all the other stuff that you have said is precisely where we are going... it is the loving action of people, despite their fear, who are creating the future we are all heading into... and the more people that love and act, despite their fear, the faster we will get there, and the more solid it will look. And, it will be imperfectly perfect, whatever it looks like.

Have you seen this? Think you might like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftCFSS4Dnts

With much love. x x x x

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you xx

Shaz's avatar

A beautiful read, despite the horribleness it describes. Thank you, from a concerned English onlooker.

Lisa Olivera's avatar

Thank you for reading <3

Augie Booke's avatar

🩷🩷🩷

Pati Leal's avatar

Thank you Lisa for such a much needed piece. So many of us feeling all of this.

"May the grief, rage, and sorrow be felt so fully, so deeply, so widely, that they alchemize into power for the benefit of all living beings."

Laila's avatar

I’m so glad I went back and read this. This part really moved me:

May some wise being point you toward beauty and awe when you feel squeezed in despair’s grip, when you forget there is more than just this.