Glennon Doyle

Because it's so hard.

It's so hard.

So hard.

It's so hard.

I mean, how we make it through this moment, I keep thinking about every day now.

I think about this.

There was this queer activist that was really speaking out a lot during the AIDS crisis.

His name is Dan Savage.

And he, during an interview, somebody asked him about community and about making it through this time.

And he said, what we do is every day we wake up and we bury our friends in the morning, we march in the afternoon, and at night we dance.

And I think that the answer is in that sentence.

I think that we have to make space to grieve.

We cannot dissociate from it.

If this is a time that is sad for us, we have to sit with that.

There's something about the facing the feeling, the sitting with the feeling, the not dissociating that creates fuel, right?

It's like without that, you don't get to the afternoon.

I know that.

There's some kind of groundedness or directionality or realness that people who grieve bring to the afternoon work, which makes me trust them.

It's like you've got to let your heart break to be worthy of the work.

Otherwise, you're doing the work for different reasons.