rivervox

I wrote his on Amanda Palmer's blog, but I wanted to keep it here so that I can develop the thought. It's all swirling around but I feel that I can almost see the eye of of hurricane.

"Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall..." Obama's words brought me to tears and then
to thinking about how these stories are linked. What is this force that
freedom has to push against? The cheap answer is straight white men but
that's only the surface, the reflection of those who traditionally have
held power and fought to maintain their privileged status in the US.
Societies seek homogenization and stasis. You must be like us to be part
of us and we will never change. This is true in the schoolyard, the
street and the work place. We fear and punish difference, completely
missing the point that we are one race, the human race, in infinite
diversity, infinite combination.
The conversations that we're having
here all seem related, whether it's bullying, body hair or the fraud
police. I can't quite bring it into focus, but it's about adults
pretending that we're all OK, that we're all happy, successful, hairless
masters of our own destinies. I'm reminded of the Leonard Cohen song
"Anthem"

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. "
On this blog and in this community, people can expose themselves,

their imperfections, pain and secret joys, and there is so much Light.