Get to know your neighbors. Feed them. Let them feed you. Watch each others’ kids, grandkids, pets.
Develop the muscle of generosity like you are training for a giving ultra-marathon. Share everything you can with anyone who asks, and ask for what you need.
Get in touch with your body. You will need it, and it knows things. Pay attention to what is happening below your neck.
Tell the truth. Tell it to yourself first.
Sit at the feet of your most vulnerable neighbors and your own most vulnerable places. They have the most to teach you about survival.
Listen. Remember your ancestors, and the things they survived. Find the resilience that is your birthright and the courage that made way for your life.
Practice taking risks. Show up in every struggle where someone is fighting for their dignity, because that is how we will all survive.
Learn about reparations, and native sovereignty. Double down on exorcising supremacy systems from your soul.
Learn to be tender. Refuse to be hardened. Let your heart be moved. Every damn time.
Root in the place you are. Learn its history. Learn its geography. Learn its seasons.
Sing. A lot. And dance. Make art. Make love. Rest luxuriously. Eat pie. …
The world is ending and beginning now. We are surviving now.
Let us love, let us connect, let us fight like hell for the dignity of each and all
From the Rev. Molly Housh Gordon,
Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, MO
