I was so glad to see your inclusion of the Maya Angelou words on bitterness. I take the falling into bitterness very seriously. I have seen what it does to people, am seeing what its legacy is doing to people in my community and also the planet as a whole. It scares me how easily bitterness is minimized or misread or denied as such. I t…
I was so glad to see your inclusion of the Maya Angelou words on bitterness. I take the falling into bitterness very seriously. I have seen what it does to people, am seeing what its legacy is doing to people in my community and also the planet as a whole. It scares me how easily bitterness is minimized or misread or denied as such. I think of how bitterness wraps itself around its source in the person and squeezes the life from them, of how bitterness does what all the "isms" truly want: death of the soul of the bearer.
I agree with Ms. Angelou, Mr. Cage, yourself, and so many others who've written here: use our anger, don't let it use us.
I was so glad to see your inclusion of the Maya Angelou words on bitterness. I take the falling into bitterness very seriously. I have seen what it does to people, am seeing what its legacy is doing to people in my community and also the planet as a whole. It scares me how easily bitterness is minimized or misread or denied as such. I think of how bitterness wraps itself around its source in the person and squeezes the life from them, of how bitterness does what all the "isms" truly want: death of the soul of the bearer.
I agree with Ms. Angelou, Mr. Cage, yourself, and so many others who've written here: use our anger, don't let it use us.
Thank you, Anastasia. Of course you're right.