Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.