hey, bloom.

over on IG i’ve been making a weekly post called winsday wednesday, where i invite you to share your, you guessed it, wins for the week

it’s all about celebrating all-sized wins, and it’s important

as i went to make the post today though, i just couldn’t do it. not the way i have been, anyway

like i said… celebration is important

honoring your wins helps fuel you in all you do. and you, sweet bloom, are worthy of so much celebration

AND… i can’t stop thinking of the humans who’ve been forced into rafah, and then forced out, who were celebrating on monday at news of a ceasefire agreement accepted by hamas, only to have israel demonstrate non-acceptance with the taking of the rafah crossing

i saw a post where a mother told of her child celebrating on monday, dead on tuesday

i know that’s hard to hear. but if you’re in a place where the hardest thing about it is hearing it, i ask that you consider how you can dedicate one of your wins this week to those in palestine struggling to make it to another day, wondering why the eff the world isn’t doing something about it

in yet another week where we had a big lavish entertainment spectacle or awards show in the US concurrent with escalations of the mass destruction + devastation in palestine, i ask that you open your heart to doing what you can

from attending a protest, to sending a copy/paste letter to the president + your other elected officials, to reading the posts you may be scrolling past + then sharing them, talking about them…

something wins over nothing every time here

it’s day 215 of this war

34,844 palestinians have been killed

78,404 have been injured

and this is to speak nothing of what’s happening elsewhere in the world

yes, it’s a lot. there’s so much i need to educate myself on, and i know it can feel overwhelming

again, if overwhelm is the worst of it, we should be so lucky

so please, keep celebrating your wins. and add some action for humanity + human rights to them

even when we feel powerless, every action counts

even when we feel powerless, we can choose to keep trying

even when we feel powerless, may we never look away

we are citizens of this world. how will you act like it today?

xxoo, cc

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