I Am On Team Love & Beauty
And that team is fighting for its life right now. (It may always be fighting for its life, honestly, but things feel particularly dire at the moment).
I grew up wanting to be President. I studied American Government at Georgetown and went to law school the minute I graduated.
Somewhere during that time I realized I was too idealistic for such a pursuit (though I continued to practice law for five years before leaving for greener pastures, or at least more personally-fitting pastures).
I am too “flower-hearted” for such a profession, to quote poet Nikita Gill.
In fact, because her poem is so inspiring to me, and because I’m hoping it may be for you too, I will share it here—
I will not give up
the flowers in my heart
just because the world
is a hard place.
The world
is only a hard place
because it needs more
flower-hearted people.
-Nikita Gill
Anyway, I am flower-hearted, and this world is often not.
I say this all to preface something important—
I know that the world outside (especially if you are in the United States) looks dark right now. There is a lot of darkness that we may have only imagined outside the boundaries of our country. (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, I would point you to the work of journalist Jessica Yellin, writer Rebecca Solnit, and historian Heather Cox Richardson.)
BUT- and I mean this- the world is also very beautiful. In fact, to quote my favorite poet, Mary Oliver—
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