You are not your job…you’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. -Brad Pitt
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
It’s such a powerful through line between George Floyd lying on that street saying, “I can’t breathe,” and Eric Garner]on a street in Staten Island in 2014 saying, “I can’t breathe.” And it’s important for us to remember that what we see today is built on the platform of what we saw in Ferguson and what we saw in Baltimore. It’s built on the platform of seeing Walter Scott running in that park in North Charleston. It’s built on the platform of seeing Terence Crutcher, with his hands up, shot by Betty Shelby in Tulsa. And it’s built on the platform of watching Ahmaud Arbery[8] essentially hunted weeks before. I think some people think that the activism went away, but it didn’t. –SHERRILYN IFILLpresident, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
If you’re going to march, you do it. You go looking for peace, you try to make sure you keep the peace, keep your individuals that are with you, that are joining in, you try to keep them on track. And you just get started and let the emotion lead you. –BRUCE WILSONBlack Lives Matter activist, Greenville, South Carolina
I was told that the D.A. had a press conference, had said that there may have been contrary evidence suggesting what we saw on the tape wasn’t all there was to it. I started calling Keith Ellison, who I’d known since he was in Congress. I said to him, “Keith, why aren’t you, as attorney general, able to take the case?” And he said, “I can’t take the case unless it’s given to me. I understand your trepidation with the D.A., but I have no authority unless it’s given to me.” I said, “Well, maybe we need to help give it to you.” And he said, “I can’t get into that, Rev.” That’s when I called the governor. The governor returned the call, and Keith was on the phone, and the governor said, “I can assure you, Reverend, we’re going to have a full investigation, and we’ll work with the D.A.” And I said, “Well, I’m troubled by what the D.A. said. There’s trouble in the feeling on the ground about the D.A. And I recommend that you give the case to the attorney general.” He was noncommittal. He said, “I register what you are saying. Others have said it.” And he said, “We’ll get back with you. But I assure you, we’re never gonna sweep this under the rug.”AL SHARPTONMSNBC host; founder, National Action Network
In my mind, in my opinion, the most beautiful form of protest that happened out in Minneapolis was that police station burning because it said directly from the public to the police, we will accept this no longer. People were finally angry enough not to care about AutoZone, not Target, but to take it directly to government. We pay people to quote-unquote govern us. And that government has become evil, maniacal, and manipulative; it is our duty to burn down the government.
KILLER MIKErapper and activist
If you think you could benefit from working with a therapist, then that’s reason enough to seek one out. Don’t make the mistake of waiting until you are facing a mental health crisis. The idea of hitting ‘rock bottom’ is dangerous and misleading because it rationalizes continuing to not seek help because one doesn’t believe they’ve hit it yet, that they’ve gotten to their worst point,” she says. “If you think you need help, get help.”
Waiting too long can also lead to another common mistake: Booking with the very first practitioner you call. If possible, it’s best if you can take your time doing research and chatting with various therapists before deciding which one you want to start seeing regularly.
“Waiting until there is a desperate need for a therapist creates a sense of urgency,” “Focusing on the first appointment, rather than overall fit, could detour progress in the long run.”
‘The world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind. —Caitlin Moran
Kind People don’t notice whether its winter or summer when they’re happy ― Anton Chekhov
Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents something…
My cast-iron pans remind me of my grandmother. She used them for all her cooking, and I like to think they were the secret to all her good meals. They were the first thing I bought for my own kitchen in hopes I could recreate her cooking.
