Gratitudes: Exemplars Everywhere
First-in-a-series Gratitude Practice with Mindfulness Editor Seánan Forbes
Month: December 2018
2018: The Year We Survived
I want to be awake the first seconds of 2019 alive with the hope that maybe this upcoming year won’t be as fucking awful and infuriating and interminable as this year was.
Though she be fierce, she is but little: why mighty girls still need us to do our part
She had hoped he would stop and she could pretend that he had never said those things. Because she desperately wanted her math teacher, the teacher who teaches her very favorite subject, to be nice, to be a good person.
“No offense, but…”
How are you supposed to learn how to not be “unintentionally” racist or sexist or whatever if people never have the right to tell you that you hurt them?
I ended a close friendship over politics
I wish I could call her when I’m having a rough day, but I’m also angry at her. She didn’t understand: if racism isn’t a dealbreaker, you’re also racist.
Dear Atheists: I love you.
Dear atheists, I love you. I wish that could be the singular message I have for you today, but in light of this current culture of religious and political train-wreckage, I feel like there is more to be said. So, I would like to start by asking for a reprieve from judgment. I know. You …
White privilege sucks for everyone. WTF to do about it.
It’s upsetting to suddenly go from the altruist or the protagonist to be thrust under the icy salt water. Every place you thought you were strong begins to sting. You realize at once that you were never truly innocent.
When a Leader Dies
To those who are angry at any mention of the problematic past of individual people and of our country– good. It should tell you something about yourself and about our society as a whole.