Whatever the weather

Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.
~Brené Brown

Hello, all. What can I say about this week? I was overly confident that people would walk away from a vindictive criminal but for a surprising number of people, bad behavior is a feature, not a bug. Other folks really believed all the "immigrants, immigrants!" nonsense and some believed, mindboggingly enough, that a person who keeps bankrupting his businesses and has no rational economic policy would do better with the economy.

I have been thinking about what I can learn from Black Joy:

Black Joy is finding the positive nourishment within self and others that is a safe and healing place. It is a way of resting the body, mind, and spirit in response to the traumatic, devastating and life-altering racialized experiences that Black people continue to encounter. So, bring on the Joy.

Though some of us don't have racialized experiences, we must hold grief and joy at the same time. What choice do we have? One foot in front of the other.

This week's poem:

Whether the weather
Author Unknown

Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.

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Merely Day by Day has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Cathy!