“When this ultimate crisis comes… when there is no way out – that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.”
― Émile Durkheim
I committed to post something every day for 365 days yet sometimes what is going on in this world leaves me at a loss for words and I can only rely on what others have said or say.
Durkeim’s quote has been helping me think with hope of strength emerging to push for justice.
In our bubble for Thanksgiving–we keep falling into conversations and arguments trying to find what we can do to help people and the world.
Meanwhile, I keep wanting to listen to Maya Angelou’s poem, I’ll Rise, set to music by Ben Harper. We have to keep this in our minds.
And we listened to Smokey Robinson’s version of “I just don’t know what to do with myself’