Rage is a perfectly appropriate response

I’ve been particularly angry lately. Given what we’re up against rage feels like a perfectly appropriate response. But while in past I have had places to direct and channel my anger, I’m feeling lost these days. It’s too much, too fast, too many to count that I don’t know where to go or what to do with these feelings.

I’m naming this because maybe you’re feeling this too.

But when I slow down enough to listen to the language of my anger, I discover that it’s not anger at all.

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her name was grief” (unknown).

The grief feels endless. Grief for the world we have inherited. Grief for all those lost in its web. Grief for an uncertain future. But grief can be both a response to change and a force for change. And so I’m letting it wash over me and so that I may be of service to the change that we all deserve.

Hang in there, y’all. And take care of each other.

Kerri (she/her)

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Check your registration status. Make sure you voting info is up to date.

Find early voting near you. Know your options for how and where to vote.

Make a plan to vote. How are you voting? When are you voting? What are you voting?

Build your squad. Become a squad captain and inspire your friends/family/coworkers to turn out.

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