#Love #resistance

One thing 2017 taught me was this: Don’t give up on love. 2017 was a hard year. A bewildering year. It was a year when chaos took the...

Last night, arriving home after doing my civic duty at a public hearing regarding fourteen activists facing a $70,000 fine for chaining...

“If we could admit how bad things are, that would be the beginning of something good, of a kind of radical honesty with ourselves. That...

Love is the most powerful force in the universe. More powerful than thought. More powerful than war. More powerful than shame, or hatred,...

Some days, love looks and feels a lot like anger. Yesterday evening, I arrived at the rally in a downtown plaza in Oakland, California...

This was written on the 50 year anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the day of Dr. King’s “Dream” speech. Martin...

Love is worth it. Even if it breaks your heart. Anything that makes more space inside is worth the risk. I was reading journalist Laurie...

“Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.” – Mary “Mother” Jones I didn’t get much sleep last night, but I’m sure it was...

Let us always stand for love. Standing for love is a long game. We may not get what we want in the moment, but in persevering, love...

. Some days, I miss James Baldwin keenly. When I look to today’s thinkers, activists, creators to reflect the world back to me, so I can...

(What helps you open heart and soul enough to fall in love?) What is the thing you love most? What will you do to save it? If you had the...

DOMA should never have been passed. Proposition 8 is a hateful law. I am for neither of these. Love will out and both of these try to...

This morning I dreamed that the phrase Love > Fear was tattooed on the back of my neck. It was tattooed over my heart. It was tattooed on...

“Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.” – James Baldwin What will...

. “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” – Muriel Rukeyser. Speaking the truth...

. There is great power in expansive stillness. There is great power in the depths. Lately, I’ve been meditating on the powers of the...

. A commentator on my last entry wrote: “A touching piece about an important question – the question Mario Savio posed, standing on top...

. My heart feels pensive. If the heart can think, then today, mine is preoccupied. Not quite sad, though tinged with sadness, but moving...

Today, I welcome rain falling to the sidewalks, plants, and streams. I wish for shelter for all in need. As a Californian, who has often...