Ended on a high note

I was down this morning and felt so helpless. Music didn’t help. It worried me because I’ve been down all week.

I’ve been deliberately using photography to balance out the horrors of the past three years. I’ve only taken political pictures at protests and in protest of our kidnapping children (see https://medium.com/@KendallisHere/bronze-shoes-installation-project-644400348d6e for how you can get your own bronze shoes and hang them in protest). 

But then I decided to take these pictures and combine them and just the action of taking the pictures lifted my spirits somehow - which makes no logical sense. It doesn’t need to make logical sense.

After the election I was given a book where Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama discussed the need for joy even in horrible times. They didn’t discuss HOW, just the need. Really the book was just a long giving of permission. 

Outrage has to be balanced. Not only does it do no good to suffer endlessly as well, but it reduces our ability to be effective by wearing us into despondency.