'Stand in your power. Love deeply. Live joyfully. In my view, these are the greatest acts we can take for ourselves and each other.'
to colleagues and friends who were shocked or surprised by the violence. I’ve felt the infuriating responsibility of having to speak up over and over, and the deflating burden that if I do not speak up, the API community’s pain and suffering will be ignored, lost. Yet again. Another prick in our already breaking collective heart.
How can I ever create a sense of safety when I am literally shielding my face and body from potential violence from walking down the street? In the days, weeks, and months, following the shootings, I sat with that complex discomfort in my meditation practice, exhaling and letting go of the fear with each breath. Through my breath cycles, I was reminded of my resilience—the one that was built after years of already enduring racism, the one inherited from my parents’ courage as refugees and from all my Asian ancestors who came before them.
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