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Sunday, October 17, 2010

i am human.

I was once asked who I identify with, and my response was as a woman and as a human. I identify as a woman for reasons that I won’t get into right now (because it would be a novel), but I identify as human because of my belief in solidarity and in community. My vision for a loving world is a world in which my community extends to every human being on the planet just because we are human. I believe in love just as I believe in justice because loving all humans would manifest itself in justice. A just world would be a loving community. A just world would celebrate all of humanity in its mere existence. Imagine humanity as one, universal community:

"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been — a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free"-Starhawk

Behind my eyes exists this vision of home. The glimpses I catch are in the love I see all around me--within human eyes, within physical touch, within lips curling into uncontrollable, unstoppable smiles, within action, within voices, within each of us whether or not we choose to express it. This is my dream. I want to create it day by day in the limited scope that I can control. I want to create it day by day in utter solidarity with all of humanity.

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