For those marching today, be safe and be strong.
For those not marching today, be safe and be strong.
I will have the same message for anyone I come across. I want the best for you. For us. For our children. For our parents. For our grandparents.
I won’t judge you for what you call God. I won’t judge you if you don’t have a God.
I don’t care what shade your skin is. I don’t care if you are darker or lighter than I am… which is about the colour of a vanilla latte without foam.
I won’t judge you for the gender you are or the one(s) you fall in love with.
I don’t care if you drink coffee or tea but I will admit to giving you the side eye if you put milk into the mug before your tea unless of course you’re drinking from bone china.
What I do care about is your life. I would like everyone to have the opportunity to learn all they want to learn and to experience as much as they want to experience. I’d like people to try new things and I’d like people to say it’s okay if their friend tries a new thing and doesn’t like it.
What I do care about is you. And I will defend your right to be all of these things, do all of these things, because there are people actively working to make you less than who you are, who you can be, who you want to be.
Our lives should be about the freedom to explore our humanity and to celebrate it as we gather up the seconds and minutes, the sunrises and sunsets, we have available to us.
Our world is about balance. Our lives are about balance. If someone tries to tip that balance…tries to take away our freedom to love, to worship, to exist as a person.. then yes, we need to stand together and say No, I Care.
So be safe, be strong, be happy… but most of all… be.
Thank you for those words of strength and encouragement.
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Very well said. Accepting people no matter what race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion,etc… is the key to making American great again. Inclusion not exclusion. 😀
Agreed 😀
Yes, and thank you.
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Hear! Hear! Thank you for saying what is in your heart and echoing what is in mine as well. Be safe and whole, everyone.
Thank you for being able to articulate what many others think/feel/hope for but don’t quite know how to.
Your writing is very visual if that makes any sense at all? lol One of the many reasons I love your stories😄
Ok I got off track, but totally what you said!
You always say it so beautifully, Rhys.
Sending you hugs from the rainy, rainbow streets of Oregon today. 😘
Yes, this!
Thank you, your message was so comforting. I will keep it and pull it out when I feel down.
Again thank you for articulating a wonderful thought.
💖😘from a dry,dry, city in Colorado
Beautifully said, may the world be blessed with those words.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I have never had a problem with the others’ believes, only those
who refuse to allow me my beliefs.
So I agree, be strong in your beliefs and stand up for those who cannot protect themselves.