Affirmation

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." -- Julian of Norwich

Even when the rains fall

sheeting down the windows

for days without end.

Even when factories explode,

when gun deaths rise

like flood waters,

when long-held prejudices

prove impossible to dislodge,

when there's no way around

admitting that what hurts

isn't going away.

For every wound, a salve.

For every insult, kindness.

Someone presses ten dollars

into an empty hand.

A bag of clothes appears

on the porch just as you wonder

how to afford new sizes.

Someone is writing a story

just for you, hoping

it will find its reader.

Tomorrow the sun will rise

and you will be loved.

It isn't enough. It's enough.

 

 

Julian of Norwich was a Christian mystic in the fourteenth century of the Common Era.

There was a chemical plant explosion in Louisiana yesterday. And here's Slate's tally of gun deaths since Newtown.

On the brighter side: several writers in the SF/F community are matching donations made to the Carl Brandon Society, "a non-profit group dedicated to increasing the 'racial and ethnic
diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.'"

Jane Goodall's Reasons for Hope. See also this list of Kindness Ideas.

We are loved by an unending love.