yes, and
yes, and we're told to lean in, only to find ourselves constantly leaning down to pick up the pieces losing ground, falling down. the days are a cycling blur of need and numb, numb and need. paved paths lead to swift dead ends. we cannot justify our way out of this. it's time for an abolition of the means and the end of meanness. yes, and healing is happening. we're here, we fear, yet we won't keep getting used to it. we fall in, call in, reach out and sometimes shout with joy. we mend the cracks with the gold we have, and that we are, so that we can carry water and each other. by megan hatch
