Mountain Pose

[catelin]

Who I am does not change according to whatever way the political winds blow. I've spent a lifetime getting around the man, helping others do the same, working within and without the system for change, always speaking up when it mattered. I live my morality. It may not be what much of the country would like to shove down my neck, but I am consistent. One election will not change in me what several others have not. One election will not cut off the hand I extend to my brothers and sisters. One election will not defeat my sense of hope, even as it renews my sense of shame. But no matter, I will go on being who I am, fighting for the causes I believe in, and never compromising myself. I will not abandon who I am and what I can do. One hundred times one hundred motherfucking elections will not change that.

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grazie! words of a survivor--you/me are/am not alone...

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