Happy 2019!

Happy new year everyone from our family to yours! As we glide past 2018 and into 2019, let’s hope for more kindness, equality, and solidarity throughout our world. Surely things can change for the better. Here is James Baldwin in Nothing Personal, back in 1964:

‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.

…For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.’

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