Relationship is our Resistance

Something feels different lately. Like the world is holding its breath.

In our communities.
In our orbits.
In the quiet spaces in between.

I’m trying, really carefully, to balance two needs that feel like they’re pulling in opposite directions: The need to be in the know and the need to stay safe and well.

Staying safe and well is our best defence against harm and hate but it’s hard.

It feels like we’re standing on the edge of something important, and I can’t tell whether the fall is into madness or into the change we so desperately need.

Maybe both.
Maybe the discomfort is the warning sign.
Or maybe it’s the beginning of the rebuilding.

I keep thinking about education when I feel like this because education is always a mirror of society. Our classrooms hold the world as it is, not as we wish it was. Our children? They feel everything, even when we’re trying to protect them from it.

I wanted to share this here because this community is full of people who lead with heart.

Empaths.
Wholehearted leaders.
Starfish throwers.
Gatekeepers.
People who keep children and families safe, even when it comes at a cost to us. Often then. Often quietly. Often without applause.

And if anyone else is feeling this, I just want you to know: Me too.

Some days I channel that energy into changing the world.
Into writing, advocating, building, pushing, protecting, holding the line.
Other days, I channel it into simply existing in the world.

Into small joys.
Softness.
Staying steady.
Breathing.
Choosing not to consume every headline, every tragedy, every fear and that’s okay.

There is beauty in awareness.
In understanding.
In walking beside one another.
In being able to hold the discomfort and still work to make it better.

Right now, relationship is our resistance.
Presence is our protest.
Kindness is our strategy.
Connection is how we stay human.

If you’re carrying this too, you don’t have to carry it alone.
I’m here too. 💗