It’s Friday, everyone. We made it.
I am anxious about my health, my job, my friends (especially those of us whom the prevailing culture seems to want to annihilate), my country, and the world in general. I am not ok.
This week has been a lot, and it’s Friday.
It’s Friday, and I love you, and here are some things I want you to remember to do.
- Connect with your people. It’s ok to be overwhelmed with grief. For many of us, this year has already been super shitty. For many people, it got extra shitty this week. For many others, it was always going to be shitty no matter what happened. It’s ok to say that. Reach out and say that to someone who is a soft place to land. If you don’t have someone in your face-to-face life to say that to, you can say it to me.
- Take care of yourself. Drink water. Eat something (multiple times a day, even if it’s just a cracker or one piece of fruit. Cheese. Cheese is delicious.). Take your meds. Take a walk. Take a nap. Cuddle with your pets (or a friend’s pets).
- Take care of your community. Volunteer, donate, raise awareness, protest – whatever you can do. Even if you have to do it from your bed.
- https://societyofnativenations.org/donate.html
- https://www.txpetalproject.com/contact
- https://www.ourdailybreaddenton.org/donate
- https://outreachdenton.org/give/
- https://secure.splcenter.org/page/64745/donate/1
- https://dcfof.org/donate/
- https://www.healpalestine.org/donate/
- https://www.mutualaidhub.org/
- https://give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/637912/donate
- https://www.kuzu.fm/#membership-1-section
- Make art. You are a creative force. Art fosters innovation, solution, communion, restoration, revolution. Artists are instigators of change. Artists remind us of the things worth staying alive for.
- Write it down. Blog. Post on social media. If that doesn’t feel safe, take five minutes at some point every day to word vomit on the page of a journal. No one ever has to see it but you. Even if you need to check out for a minute, don’t stay that way. Don’t stop paying attention. Don’t stop speaking up. Don’t stop.
I hope your weekend is restful, and I hope you get to spend it with people who have your best interests at heart.
M. Suzanne Terry 