So much rage.
It’s the response of the whole world right now to a great
many things – to rape, to movie posters, to international incidents. Everywhere
you turn, on every social media outlet, on every computer screen, in your email
and on your TV… hatred, screaming, and rage.
I walk in my garden a lot these days, running my hands
though the soil and gently brushing my fingers against the leaves and flowers.
I think about the scents on the air and I do my damnedest to bring my soul back
to center.
Some days are harder than others.
I have a lot of thoughts, and they’re all going here, and
this is the last I’ll speak on them.
The Rape: unless you’ve been where that woman is right now,
you don’t know how she feels. You can sympathize, but you don’t know. That boy,
the one whose picture is fucking everywhere right now, is scum right alongside
anyone who’s ever molested a child. He should feel what she feels – he should
have EVERYTHING taken away. I’m glad to see that might actually happen. To be
fair, I won’t be terribly surprised if it doesn’t. I’ve met the world.
The Billboard: I see both sides of this. I’ve been a comic
book fan for years – that part of my brain sees that image as the last two
pages of a nail-biting issue and *that* is the image you’re left with as you
wait for the next issue to see if your heroes won or not. It’s a teaser, it’s a
TO BE CONTINUED and it’s doing a damn good job. It is triggering in the brains
of comic book readers around the world the anticipation that we know and love,
and it’s making us excited for the movie. I’m also a woman. I’ve been abused. I’ve
been in the position of a person larger than me looming and holding me down by
my throat. I learned to be strong and I survived. That billboard doesn’t trigger
those memories in me.
The Election: If any of you think we actually have a say in
who’s elected, you’re dreaming. Instead of fighting about this election, how
about you fight for changing the election laws in the 4 years before the next
one, and see if we can do a better job at this sometime in the next decade.
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I’m meditating more these days. I find I have the need…
there is so much out there competing for my attention, so many people screaming
at me to rise up and be an advocate, to use my craft to bring someone down, to
stand and put oppressors in their place, to change laws, to do EVERYTHING…. It’s
too much. It’s overwhelming.
So I invite you, dear readers, to do me a favor. Breathe
deep. Stay calm. Think clearly. *then* answer those posts on your Facebook or
Twitter or elsewhere that you feel you need to answer and just ignore the rest.
It’s said that you have to pick your battles. It’s also
important to pick the hill you’re willing to die on – and if one of these issues’
isn’t it? Well, that’s ok too. No one has to make that decision but you.
Everyone else can just fucking get over it.
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