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Souvenir ball from my childhood.
If only we could live our lives this way! With such constancy. With exquisite endurance, faith that doesn't flag, joy even in the waiting. Holding the world – and each other – with love and loyalty, despite imperfection, despite unfinishedness... If we could just hang on to life, with all its ups and downs, with the fierce love with which Cubs fans hang on to baseball. What a world this would be!
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But knowing where we stand, knowing who we are, in a deep way? In a way that fills that vacuum? So that we have a sense of priority and of purpose. Compassion at the ready. Yes, knowing where we stand. That is surely something. That is surely medicine for our aching psyches.
Read moreWe also live in a broken time. We walk the streets filled with grief. We are in exile from our highest vision. Our dreams of peace and justice lie in ruins. Now, more than ever, we need Rachel. We need to be Rachel, changing history by following her example.
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My certainty that I am safe is unearned and undeserved. And so is the certainty of black men in this country that they are not.
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We all spend time scouting our Promised Lands. The futures we want to have. The country and community and nation we want to live in. All of those futures are filled with great potential. Beauty. Bounty. And peril too. So how do we keep our fear from outspeaking, outshouting every other thing we can imagine or dream? How do we keep our fear from driving us to stupid decisions?
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