"We cannot always stop suffering. We cannot always save the people we love. We cannot always change what happens to us.
"But we can accompany one another through it."
For those of you without fathers on Father's Day or missing another loved one, I hope you have people in your lives who you can talk to and who can keep you out of the darkness.
In college I was part of a club none of us wanted to be in. Special Survivors was for students who had had a close relative die. We didn't have mental health services, and we didn't have tools to manage our grief. Instead, we sat in a dorm room once a month or so and shared our sad stories.
Y’all really got Elmo fucked up🤣
Dear Knicks,
Stay away from the WH.
Your fans.
I didn't tell anyone else about my father's death for decades because it is just too painful to say aloud. But in that group, I knew it was safe to say aloud to people would genuinely emphasize.
“Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied. The enslaved people of Texas had to wait 30 months to learn what the rest of the nation already knew. Black women in Texas are still waiting.”