There is no Alternative to Persevering

You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can
scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up
tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone
who’s upset and check your equipment for going onward. A
lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of
us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary.

Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are
heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.
People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America
in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the
USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people
there are writing poetry.

There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not
require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it’s
sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that
taking care of something else is an important part of taking
care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten
trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has
been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended
and washed.

Rebecca Solnit