Find your voice, and raise it. Stake your authority, and state it. Don’t recoil. Don’t back down. Sometimes authority should be worn lightly. But at other times — especially once you have worked out what it is you want to say about justice, or joy, or in response to the nonsense that can sometimes pass as public debate — it should be brandished like a torch. It might take you decades to speak up about things that matter to you, but, being able to speak your truth is a vital part of being human, of walking with certainty and openness on the earth, and refusing to be afraid. Once you have found
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