A New Year's Manifesto

Every year is our first, and our last, and our only. This year: May we play. May we look as ridiculous as possible as often as we can in the name of abandon and giggling and childhoods full of smiles. May we be the first to give ourselves over to the joke or the game, to fall on our prideful swords, to hold ourselves loosely, carefully, with good-hearted scrutiny and abundant grace. May we suspend our cynicism and our disbelief. May we listen to stories, learn them, and tell them. May we make the laughter happen and keep it living as long and as loudly and as well as we can. May we seek out ways to become uncomfortable, for those who are too comfortable have much to fear and little to do. May the knowledge of injustice spread like hives on the skins of our souls. May we itch and ache and writhe for solution, for salvation, for equality and freedom. May we be less generous with our opinions and more generous with our time. May we be the last to speak and the first to arrive, shovels in hand, to do the hard work of change-making. May we save our words for the spaces within which we also intend to do. May we be hashtag activists AS WELL AS front line warriors. May we seek, and move, and be. May we speak the hardests truths, the deepest shames, the secrets that own us with their silence. May we give ourselves and each other the offering of honesty, coupled always with kindness. May we follow conversations to the darkest and most frightening places and find withi...
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