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July 24, 2020
See: the Wall of U.S. military vets in Portland last night, standing at Parade Rest.
This scene lifted my heart up again. The citizens of America, teaching the Feds the true meaning of America: This scene lifted my heart. May it lift yours, too. ~ Waylon
It’s easy to be just if we are raised just. It’s easy to be unjust if we are raised unjust.
Raised and surrounded by hate and ignorance?
…if we can grow out of that, we have used every step of the path that is this life well. We have offered up far greater effort than in maintaining any privileged status quo.
Keep talking about anti-racism. Keep learning. Keep sharing. This isn’t a fad, it’s a movement of generations—and the more progress we can realize now, the better.
This movement is not isolated, it is intersectional—affordable housing, feminism, climate change, war, policing, veganism, economy, education—when one leaf turns over, we find our basic goodness wants to awaken to caring in other areas.
Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal & host of Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, is a 1st generation American Buddhist “Dharma Brat.”
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