Cultivate deep community that is not allowed to post online. Find and create spaces of intimacy, accountability, and vulnerability. Be subversive like my Ancestors on the Underground Railroad, like my Ancestors during the Great Migration. Invent a space of joy, freedom, and rest right now. Right in front of you. Lay down. Wander until you get lost. Be like the maroons. Decide you will never be enslaved. You are not on the run since you don’t belong to the systems. There is nothing to run from. Rest by slowing down. Rest in secret. Rest out in the open. Get off these phones. Write more
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