Bear Witness to the Beautiful

In the moments where I have felt very low in the past few weeks, I have been using this reminder from writer and poet Cole Arthur Riley’s Black Liturgies:
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”To bear witness to the beautiful is not to be conflated with escapism or naïveté. It is a deep form of survival inherited from our ancestors.

“In a time when we have more access than ever before to the traumas of this world, how will you resist the tide of despair? Let beauty be your anchor.”