Such beautiful message for #Matariki from @violetblue 's newsletter this week:
"The three main themes that guide the celebrations are: “Remembrance – Honouring those we have lost; Celebration – Giving thanks for the present; Aspiration – Looking ahead with hope.”
I feel like for our purposes here, the remembrance aspect might be a step toward reclaiming the collective grief we’ve been denied by all of our Covid losses, and all the people we’ve lost that have gone unacknowledged, even denied. It’s like we’ve never had a minute for that, to sit and not let the memories of our loved ones be treated like car crash statistics. For celebration, I feel like we are so gaslit and dismissed that we deserve to celebrate how incredible we are to have survived this pandemic, how well we’re still taking care of ourselves by masking and vaccinating despite the odds and hate. If you’re helping in words or actions, you’re a goddamn prevention champion in my book. Aspiration is harder because hope feels like such a dwindling, finite resource. But look at us defying the anti-science hoards by building a better future, even just by putting eyes on this page and staying sharp and aware.
Stay apart, stand together, mask up, and stay strong."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-june-19-131798647
#covidIsNotOver