‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’ - Nikki Giovanni

You have to make up your mind, what you love and what you loves. - Nikki Giovanni

"Longings, too, can be common ground. A shared desire not to be lost to bitterness. A clear-eyed commitment that what divides us now does not have to define what can become possible between us." — Krista Tippett

A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community
So there are two things going on: We're trying to change the world, but we have to change ourselves, because we are a microcosm of the macrocosm. - Gwednolyn Zoharah Simmons

The Pause

We talk about raising our kids for resilience a lot, and I don't think we can raise them to be truly resilient unless we let them be sad sometimes. - Katherine May
How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes
What it means to be human is to live a life that's deeply cyclincal. - Katherine May

We need friends who wince along with our pain, who tolerate our gloom, and who allow us to be weak for a while, while we’re finding our feet again. - Katherine May