You two are phenomenal Helpers and energy multipliers. It is exciting to read you today -- of all days -- and *know* that you are both encouraging us all to carry the spirit of community with us wherever we go.
TeriLeigh and Kelly, the call to “zoom in” gives this birthday card its clearest civic instruction. Beneath the fury is a demand for local responsibility: checking on neighbors, delivering supplies, organizing care, protecting immigrants, and refusing to let national cruelty make people passive. I especially appreciate the image of both hands having a task, one holding rage honestly and the other extended to pull someone up. That is a hard, necessary vision of citizenship when celebration feels impossible: love made local enough to become action.
TeriLeigh, you and Kelly make a great team. Kelly gave the card a line strong enough to hold two truths at once, and your eye went straight to the sentence where the piece moved from emotion into instruction. The two-hands image also feels like a picture of the collaboration itself: one person shaping the language, the other recognizing where its civic force lives. Grateful for the way you both helped turn a birthday card into something that asks people to feel honestly and act locally.
I think you meant that ICE was there to sow division, not "sew."
But, I know that's nitpicking. Yet, I'm a copyeditor (among other things), so I notice those things!
Great article!
I can get behind these ideas.
I'm paying attention.
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Thank you! That would be my error and I appreciate you pointing it out! I do that sometimes. Ha!
Very powerful thank you
You two are phenomenal Helpers and energy multipliers. It is exciting to read you today -- of all days -- and *know* that you are both encouraging us all to carry the spirit of community with us wherever we go.
We are the streetlights.
TeriLeigh and Kelly, the call to “zoom in” gives this birthday card its clearest civic instruction. Beneath the fury is a demand for local responsibility: checking on neighbors, delivering supplies, organizing care, protecting immigrants, and refusing to let national cruelty make people passive. I especially appreciate the image of both hands having a task, one holding rage honestly and the other extended to pull someone up. That is a hard, necessary vision of citizenship when celebration feels impossible: love made local enough to become action.
I liked that part about both hands doing different things as well. Kelly is a good writer.
TeriLeigh, you and Kelly make a great team. Kelly gave the card a line strong enough to hold two truths at once, and your eye went straight to the sentence where the piece moved from emotion into instruction. The two-hands image also feels like a picture of the collaboration itself: one person shaping the language, the other recognizing where its civic force lives. Grateful for the way you both helped turn a birthday card into something that asks people to feel honestly and act locally.
Thank you. This was good.