Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor

We are being mandated to worship despair, being asked to choose chaos, being told confusion matters, all the while our healing and wellness declines. As a public health researcher passionate about healing my community and all those that love, love, I ask you to remember that choosing despair now, more than ever is pointless. It serves no purpose but rather pales the true purpose of humanity. I would rather we spend these times, as challenging as they seem curating joy, choosing imagination, loving humanity, then sleeping at will. A great deal about these moments begs for us to cherish even these moments in sweet defiance to the chaos and confusion it sows. We need not conform to the madness of these times, not when we know these times are indeed mad. But we are sane and we dream and we impose beauty to this day and tomorrow and the next. Joy is the only way, the only track to be on, do not let any thing or memo or executive order tell you that our joy doesn’t matter. It most certainly matters now more than ever and if you are still not convinced, drink water or try writing yoj 10 times. 

#joy, #rest with art by Monday Osas