Amanda

It's going to take a lot of people to opt out of the individualism and exceptionalism and go be in community.

But it's like, if I take my eye off the ball, my kid's going to fall behind and we're still in this old system and it's going to take opting out anyway.

There's something about what happens to our bodies.

I just can't overstate the importance in my body of, I think there's something about watching what's happening.

Watching the, quote, leaders who are being put in front of us, the Jared Kushners, those sniveling, unqualified, ridiculous, idiotic white men who are children and are attempting to lead.

Watching those people, watching the visual of ICE with these rabid guard dogs of white supremacy unleashed as power.

Watching these Trump, like there's just these images that are just, we're watching.

be put up as leaders.

What happens in my body, just seeing that over and over again is just a disembodied terror.

And then what I'm trying to explain to you is to sit in a park with a group that I organize with and watching this couple, their names are Fernando and Leslie.

We sat in a circle for three hours two days ago.

And Fernando and Leslie, Fernando knows the history of everything and teaches and teaches and teaches.

And then Leslie comes in and says, okay, that's enough facts.

That's enough brain stuff.

Let's get in our bodies.

And like does all of this somatic processing because of Leslie's culture.

She knows the history of her elders and how to do that.

And it's just this, I'm just trying to explain to you the difference in my body between watching one form of bullshit, tyrannical leadership and

And then my body being in a circle, I'm watching Leslie and Fernando.

There's something that happens to us when we are in the presence of true, wise, loving counsel and leadership.