The first time I interviewed the author of internationally renowned children Kate DikamiloTax, a tax young man just killed 19 elementary school students and two of his teachers. I called Ms. Dikamilo because A Post he wrote on Facebook I told me that she was sad. I too was sad. Of course, I thought, we were all sad.
In our conversation, he told me about talking to some schoolchildren earlier that day. “They were all of the same age as the children were in Texas, and I thought, ‘I’m very heartbroken.” “And then I thought, ‘This is my job: Staying in my heart, staying in the heart about it.”
His words have been echoing in my mind for the past three weeks. This time it is not due to school shooting – though I was the only one else in my own city – but now almost every day of every day, another cause of grief is made completely for destruction A House has broken out.
What kind of president does the feeding of hungry children shut down an agency? Or a health secretary has been appointed at a time when the crackpat vaccine is appointed when Avian can be on the path of influenza Human transmission from human? Or abandons efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even those who are more cost -effective than foam fuel, just like climate -driven weather disadvantages Are getting damaged?
What kind of president has targeted religious groups To emphasize sympathy Side of the migrants and Working to reset the refugees? Or do people come here to find out and put them in a jail camp made for terrorists? Everything by blocking the route of legal migration?
Until 2016, we lived in a democracy under the power of most elected officials who loved this country and wanted to do the right thing through it, even if they had a quick different views about “right”. Now we live in a country that is under the auspices of the oppressor, and it often seems that there is only one thing that is left that is angry against the death of light. We have to be heartbroken about it.
Anger is a powerful stimulation of resistance, but only anger that a person can nurture a cold and still and still hard and hard place where a hot, living heartbeat is once. Already I am tired of my own attitude, and Trump’s second presidency is only three weeks.
Of course this is their plan.
The toning out can feel the only way to survive. But many people are at risk immediately and they cannot afford to look away. They are counting on the rest of us to stand with them, can come into our floods Senators And Bandh With emails and phone calls, writing letters to the editor, marching in public squares. Very little attention is the one that adds us to this disturbance. We cannot change what has happened in advance, but we can tell the anarchists that we are now watching.
But in those days of anger, I am also trying to keep my heart soft, follow Kate Dikamilo’s superiority and let it break. I am trying to put anger aside and give yourself the simplicity of grief. Olagch is trying to kill my country and incite its bones, and if I do not do anything to stop them, I can at least testify. I can grieve
The question is how the heart can be broken again and again. When it is breaking it is dangerous to get away from when the tender is possible to protect the heart?
The party of bullying and corruption is counting to consider us. They need to go along with our lives – signing a slip -related slip for school, planning a summer journey, thinking that BitCoin is – as if our democracy is not in danger. As many people we live and work among them, whose children are sitting with our children at school, they are not a life -threatening danger.
In fact, none of us is safe. Depending on how far the Congress and the courts get away from the Trump administration, we are all just a mismanagement of pandemic disease-or active pregnancy, or a pre-existing condition, or a chemical spill, or a natural destruction, or a world of alcohol – War – away from disasters. No one voted for any administration that would leave them to stop them in a disaster, which threw the door open, but that’s what we are getting.
At a time when I talked about the tragedy with Ms. Dacmovilo, nothing has been done to keep the kids safe from guns, and more children suffer from this administration’s humanitarian discomfort. And they will die. So I emailed Ms. Dikamilo to ask if she has yet to know how to allow myself to be broken forever.
“I repeatedly, and repeatedly fall into the manifestation of frustration (moon, an eagle, snow) or no (a child who tells me Frustration He wrote, “A stranger who looks at me in the eyes and smiles, a grandfather, who tells his grandson about reading aloud) will come down to get me out.” I have learned not to resist the survivors.
I thought about Ms. Dikamilo when I read about the Democrats’ Senate sit -in and Protest across the country Last week was held. I thought about it when the FBI’s acting director, Brian Draceol, stood in front of the thugs demanding the names of agents working in the January 6 cases. When security officials of the US Agency for International Development refused to give Elon Musk access to the internal system. And once again, when the Federal Election Commission chairman, Alan L. Ventarab, refused to retire after President Trump dismissed social media. All around us, the brave people are fighting. Even if some of these battles prove to be ruined, they remind us that we know how to fight, and how to fight.
Also around us, there is beauty – the brave mouse in art and music and stories, such as the “story of desperatex”, which makes us brave too. The evergreen birds and hard woods shelter the green on the green path. Light planets standing in a parade over the night sky. Deep hidden glue insects in the leaves of the leaves, to turn them into fireflies waiting for warmth. The ponds along the clouds are slipping on their shining surface, and the turtles are sleeping deep in their soft mud.
Anger very little beauty, but lets the heart break? A tender heart feels the same as anger and fear, sorrow and distress, beauty and bravery. In the coming years, we will need them all.
