You are loved, respected and supported throughout this country. You are incredibly strong in sharing your experience on post partum depression and anxiety over the Trump Gestapo. Your story helps galvanize the resistance to tyranny.
May god protect you.
I am focused on flipping our district and supporting court challenges and leaders like murphy and kelly.
Thank you for your beautiful words, Marilyn. With a spouse who is also proudly Mexican and a naturalized American citizen, I will definitely follow your compelling call for us to "[Love] loudly in a world that wants us afraid" In fact, it would make a pretty powerful protest sign! I may borrow it (and cite you, of course!) Sending warm thoughts to you and your family with a reminder that you are not alone in your hope. Hope is an act of resistance!
I love your lines about hope. I have struggled with why we should have hope right now but you expressed it so well. "Hope does not look like optimism right now. It looks like refusal." Yes! Yes! Yes! Take care of yourself and know that we are refusing to give in to this horrible administration and lose our country.
Marilyn, thank you for sharing with the broader community from such a heart-felt place! Your feelings are really palpable and I know shared by me and many others. And you articulated it so well here -- the idea that right now hope "looks like refusal." Please take good care of yourself. All the best to you and your family!
Keep on keeping on, Marilyn. Though my situation is different than yours I feel your anxiety, fear and waning grip on hope. Where ever we are headed in our collective future let’s keep hoping that Love does conquer the darkness and that it’s the little rays of hope and love we give ourselves and others that will make our country rise again.
"Hope does not look like optimism right now. It looks like refusal. Refusal to forget. Refusal to be silent. Refusal to let fear decide who we become."
Thank you for sharing your experience. We can learn from your strength!
Hope is difficult to hold in times like this ... Times like this should never happen, mais, they frequently, historically do!! The time of cruelty, ignorance, and blind obedience lives today! So does the realization by those others, who live and see beyond color, origins, faiths, non-faithers ... I understand the fear, the paralyzing view from watching, living, the pain, anxiety, anger brought on by the generations of torment by these that possess the greatest fear of those not like them, that prompt them to the violence we are again, and again, seeing, living, the violence not deserved.
I believe all things pass .. But its the suffering, the loses until then wherein the anguish rests!
Thank you for sharing ... My heart and hope are with you and your family!
Awesome, Marilyn! Thank you. I share your deep anxiety and anger, and I admire your hope and strength. I was in Paris as a child when Kennedy and King were assassinated. I lived in DC when Vietnam War protests rocked the nation. Today under Trump is much worse, but the American people will prevail. Thank you. I hope Lucas can join Congress.
I thoroughly understand and empathize. I am white, but married a man whose father was Hispanic. His family, btw, was in what is now the United States before the revolutionary war, so there was never any sort of immigration. My family also was in the US before the revolutionary war, but we came from Europe. We have a brown adult son who, because of a serious illness in his childhood, required multiple organ transplants. He was born in the US, and is the son of parents also born in the US. He needs numerous medications daily to remain alive and healthy. If he is picked up by ICE, I believe he would not survive long because we would not be able to get his medications to him. This would be another instance of murder. I am quite concerned about him, as well as everyone else who has been detained. What is going on is Nazi behavior.
Marilyn, people in my family are not as vulnerable as you because we are of European decent. That statement doesn’t belong in the America a lot of us aspire to.
However we also feel the anxiety of the moment. What gives me the greatest pause is the utter lack of humanity being exhibited by those overseeing and carrying out these atrocities. Something is missing in their hearts and souls.
But there is as you say Hope. Because I believe that there are many more of us than there are of them. And to quote MLK AND LBJ, “We SHALL Overcome”, by the Grace of God.
I donate to Blue Missouri and Run For Something. A Run for Something candidate won in Texas, first time a Democrat beat a Republican in 35 years.
You are loved, respected and supported throughout this country. You are incredibly strong in sharing your experience on post partum depression and anxiety over the Trump Gestapo. Your story helps galvanize the resistance to tyranny.
May god protect you.
I am focused on flipping our district and supporting court challenges and leaders like murphy and kelly.
Thank you for writing. There are lots of us who see what is happening and are working for a better world. You’re not alone in this.
Thank you for your beautiful words, Marilyn. With a spouse who is also proudly Mexican and a naturalized American citizen, I will definitely follow your compelling call for us to "[Love] loudly in a world that wants us afraid" In fact, it would make a pretty powerful protest sign! I may borrow it (and cite you, of course!) Sending warm thoughts to you and your family with a reminder that you are not alone in your hope. Hope is an act of resistance!
I will raise my voice in defense of you until it no longer speaks!!✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/mayor-cara-spencer-backs-immigrants-amid-ice-tensions/
Here in St. Louis, we value immigrants.
I love your lines about hope. I have struggled with why we should have hope right now but you expressed it so well. "Hope does not look like optimism right now. It looks like refusal." Yes! Yes! Yes! Take care of yourself and know that we are refusing to give in to this horrible administration and lose our country.
Marilyn, thank you for sharing with the broader community from such a heart-felt place! Your feelings are really palpable and I know shared by me and many others. And you articulated it so well here -- the idea that right now hope "looks like refusal." Please take good care of yourself. All the best to you and your family!
Keep on keeping on, Marilyn. Though my situation is different than yours I feel your anxiety, fear and waning grip on hope. Where ever we are headed in our collective future let’s keep hoping that Love does conquer the darkness and that it’s the little rays of hope and love we give ourselves and others that will make our country rise again.
"Hope does not look like optimism right now. It looks like refusal. Refusal to forget. Refusal to be silent. Refusal to let fear decide who we become."
Thank you for sharing your experience. We can learn from your strength!
Hope is difficult to hold in times like this ... Times like this should never happen, mais, they frequently, historically do!! The time of cruelty, ignorance, and blind obedience lives today! So does the realization by those others, who live and see beyond color, origins, faiths, non-faithers ... I understand the fear, the paralyzing view from watching, living, the pain, anxiety, anger brought on by the generations of torment by these that possess the greatest fear of those not like them, that prompt them to the violence we are again, and again, seeing, living, the violence not deserved.
I believe all things pass .. But its the suffering, the loses until then wherein the anguish rests!
Thank you for sharing ... My heart and hope are with you and your family!
Awesome, Marilyn! Thank you. I share your deep anxiety and anger, and I admire your hope and strength. I was in Paris as a child when Kennedy and King were assassinated. I lived in DC when Vietnam War protests rocked the nation. Today under Trump is much worse, but the American people will prevail. Thank you. I hope Lucas can join Congress.
Hand on heart, thank you and your whole family for your courage. We are out here marching, donating, and speaking out. Resist ✊
I thoroughly understand and empathize. I am white, but married a man whose father was Hispanic. His family, btw, was in what is now the United States before the revolutionary war, so there was never any sort of immigration. My family also was in the US before the revolutionary war, but we came from Europe. We have a brown adult son who, because of a serious illness in his childhood, required multiple organ transplants. He was born in the US, and is the son of parents also born in the US. He needs numerous medications daily to remain alive and healthy. If he is picked up by ICE, I believe he would not survive long because we would not be able to get his medications to him. This would be another instance of murder. I am quite concerned about him, as well as everyone else who has been detained. What is going on is Nazi behavior.
Marilyn, people in my family are not as vulnerable as you because we are of European decent. That statement doesn’t belong in the America a lot of us aspire to.
However we also feel the anxiety of the moment. What gives me the greatest pause is the utter lack of humanity being exhibited by those overseeing and carrying out these atrocities. Something is missing in their hearts and souls.
But there is as you say Hope. Because I believe that there are many more of us than there are of them. And to quote MLK AND LBJ, “We SHALL Overcome”, by the Grace of God.
Marilyn, !Esperanza en el ano nuevo! y, sonrisas por su ninos.