Tender Loving Care

My loves,

We did everything we could, left it all on the field. This was always bigger than any of us - candidate or voter. Yesterday, I received powerful messages from many sources. One of them was this one, from James Baldwin: 

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. And it is with this fearful symbiosis that we live, with the awful weight of history we cannot escape. – Notes from A Native Son

We are part of a system whose rotten core has long been powered by racism and misogyny, and we fought with every fiber of our being. 

There will be time enough to deconstruct and critique. For now, let’s celebrate that for the first time in history, two Black women will serve in the Senate simultaneously–Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware.

And six million people in Florida voted for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit laws restricting abortion. That’s 57% of those who voted. (But since Florida is Florida, the amendment needed 60% support to pass). 

There were other milestones but no question that darkness lies ahead. And our light must keep burning. So, a reminder of three things.

Give yourself space to grieve. Not just today but for the coming weeks, months.

Connect to community. Today, tomorrow, often. We will need each other more than ever.

Be gentle with yourself. Self-care is survival care. Never has this been more true than now.

With all my love,
Sayu