Gina

“Here it comes. Here it is.
A rising, an exaltation.
All this wreckage. All this gorgeous, unrepeatable wreckage. Life.”
― Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

“There is no neutral body from which our bodies deviate. Society has written deep into each strand of tissue of every living person on earth. What it writes into the heart muscles of five star generals is distinct from what it writes in the pancreatic tissue and intestinal tracy’s of Black single mothers in Detroit, of Mexicans migrants in Fresno, but no body stands outside the consequences of injustice and inequality.”
― Aurora Levins Morales, Kindling

“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“That, I think, is the power of ceremony. It marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine; the coffee to a prayer.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants