Glennon Doyle

And sometimes the grieving is like, I'm going to paint my picture and just feel.

And sometimes the work is a phone call or a project or something that is about collective good.

Sometimes something with the family, but it's something that's about getting outside myself and working towards the collective good.

And then the dancing is always something like, do you remember that activist in the, which I think this, it was the longest running vigil our country's ever had that just ended.

But this man started a nightly candlelit vigil by himself in front of the White House during the Vietnam War.

And every single night he would go there and stand with his one little candle, just by himself, just stand there.

And the media finally caught on and came to him and said, what are you doing here every night?

Like, do you actually think that you standing here is going to change the administration or change the war?

And he said, oh, I don't come here every night to change them.

I come here every night so that they don't change me.

So whatever is you, like whatever is the thing that makes you feel like life is worth living, whether it's art or being with friends or dancing or

single candle, like whatever is that dance for you, you must do it each day.

Because this whole slide we're in will require people to forget how precious life is.

That is the slide.

That is the slow deadening thing we feel in all our bones right now where the rage that we had, which was proof of life, is now settling in and we don't even feel that rage proof of life anymore.

We just feel this lead settling into our

blood that feels like a chill and is like scary as shit, we have to get the fire back.

And I think we do that through our little candlelight personal vigils each day.

Yeah.

And the shadow stuff, like I feel right now that the sadness that people feel or the anger or the confusion right now, I feel like brokenheartedness is a badge of honor.