I’m still reeling from the election and still very rusty as a blogger, but I can recognize and link to intelligent and thoughtful commentary.

We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump is chilling, but we live in chilling times. I’d rather face the truth and use my voice than live obliviously. There is too much at stake.

Write down what you value; what standards you hold for yourself and for others. Write about your dreams for the future and your hopes for your children. Write about the struggle of your ancestors and how the hardship they overcame shaped the person you are today.

Write your biography, write down your memories. Because if you do not do it now, you may forget.

Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them.

Write a list of things you would never believe. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will either believe them or be forced to say you believe them.

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But most of all, never lose sight of who you are and what you value. If you find yourself doing something that feels questionable or wrong a few months or years from now, find that essay you wrote on who you are and read it. Ask if that version of yourself would have done the same thing.

And if the answer is no? Don’t do it.

I will try to post my thoughts is the the coming days or weeks, but for now, I can say this:

I will never believe that any group of people is inferior to another and deserving of scapegoating. There is so much more to say, but it starts with the assumption that every human deserves a life of dignity, free of discrimination and cruelty.