Celebrate

The word ‘protest’ doesn’t seem to accurately reflect what I’m seeing on the streets.

And that’s exactly how it should be.

Sure, we hold signs that tell the world what we reject in this current reality – but the energy and actions we are demonstrating have nothing to do with rejection and everything to do with creation.

And that’s what this is all about.

What are we collectively creating?

And what I see are people of all walks of life coming together to say,

Let’s care for one another.

Let’s accept one another.

Let’s come to understand one another.

Let’s love our neighbors.

Let’s love our earth.

Let’s make a change for the better.

Let’s celebrate our commonalities and hold loving space for our differences.

Let’s do better.

Calling out the bullshit might be what the media outlets are picking up, but creating something better is what we’re really putting down.

So they can go on calling them protests, but here in my little pond, I think I’m gonna start calling them celebrations.

Here’s to celebrating all that we’re doing right, and all that we can do better.

~ Cristen Writes