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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
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Quote #1178 - #BodiesAtRisk
24 Mar, 2025
BODIES AT RISK
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
Jim Rohn
"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world."
Etty Hillesum
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, one for helping others."
Maya Angelou
So many bodies at risk.
More and more every day.
Our bodies so at risk.
Moreso and moreso every day.
And the stress we all carry--
fear for ourselves and fear for others--
individually and globally--
takes a daily toll on our minds, hearts,
and, of course, our bodies.
So right now--today--I say breathe.
Take a deep breath when and where you can.
Find peace where you can.
Find music, and love, and humor, and joy,
and hope
where you can.
You cannot punch someone (or worse, shoot them)
when you're using your hands for good works,
for tending to things,
for building.
Along with all the necessary historical study
and contextual examination,
the political action and support of all peoples
(not all missions and intentions, but all peoples),
we need to tend to things,
we need to build.
Taking care of your body is a political act,
especially if you are in a body
that has not always been revered or respected
by the culture at large.
We need to breathe,
to take care of our bodies, our selves,
and each other's bodies and selves;
we need to make music, and humor, and joy.
We need to love, to make love.
That is where hope resides.
And we cannot go on without hope.
Shellen Lubin
March 24, 2025
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