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Christine Greenwald's avatar

LINDSEY!! it’s like you’ve been living in my mind, the first part of this essay. (We are apparently on the same wavelength this week! 😅) Beautiful writing. Will be thinking about tending to my own heavy heart that pleads for tending, and holding rage and love. Thank you for writing ❤️

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Shaina Fisher Galvas's avatar

This is so beautiful, Lindsey. I have discovered in the past year that rage will consume me if I don’t let it actively work to remake the world. It’s the sharp edge of my creative impulse, and when I let myself feel it, let it move my whole self (including my wise compassionate self, not just my inner 3-year-old), it fills me with courage I could not imagine for myself. When I discovered this, stopped trying to temper it by numbing out, I was like, “no wonder women aren’t allowed to feel angry. If we did, we would remake the world.”

Thank you for offering these beautiful reflections

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