…to resist hatred with hatred is not to pose a counter narrative. Resisting hatred with hatred simply perpetuates the same sad, feckless story of domination.
I have a young friend who, after years of wanting to be in the military and working very hard to get into it, is on his third day of boot camp. It seems that boot camp was not exactly the way he had planned it would be.
I wonder — what in our lives serves as fertilizer for our growth? We are like fig trees and rose bushes and grain crops; we require a place to grow and also nourishment for our roots to provide us with the elements for life.