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Jada Seaton's avatar

I resonate with the thoughts and feelings expressed in this post so deeply. This part especially: It feels obscene to write about gardening, cooking, beauty, fashion, photography, celebrity, pets, film, and fitness while we witness images and narratives of genocide and ecocide.”

I grapple with this every day, oscillating between feelings of hope and guilt and despair and joy constantly. Think I’m slowly coming to the realization that this is just what life is.

Beautiful words. Thank you for sharing. <3

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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon's avatar

Beautiful and powerful. Thank you for writing this. I especially love this: "A turning away orients us differently. We feel that turning. We are turned by that turning. Turned, perhaps, into different versions of ourselves." What does turning away do to us?

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