Nellie was a yes girl.
A go girl.
Only death could finally stop her - and we had to say yes to that, while she staggered on at 15-years-old through the harsh winter snow in her "Help 'Em Up" harness, doing her very best to stay with us.
Grief is a critical time for reflection.
It is so difficult to stay in it in our action-packed world.
It's a time for integrating heart with head, for being present so that our resulting actions come not only from anger at the world's injustice, but from love.
Actions that arise not only from our pain at loss but from our vision for a different world.
It is crazy difficult not to be angry right now, furious with the way wealthy men are swinging their power around in ways damaging to everyone else.
They are making their purpose very clear: to exploit us and the planet for their own gain.
The U.S. President has made himself and his family $4 billion richer in just the past year.
He has put armed thugs on our streets in response to our First Amendment rights.
He and his staff speak about others as if they are nonhuman. And there are so-called "Christians" who support this!
It would be not only impossible, but wrong, to not be furious.
So we must act.
Like Nellie, we must say yes to life and love.
Where is our purpose in love?
Not only to take care of ourselves and our families.
To take care of everyone in our communities. To care for our planet.
As Bad Bunny said last night at the Grammy Award's: hate only builds more hate.
What we want is to say yes to love.
Our grief is important. It reminds us of the immense power of what we love and how fragile it is.
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