#holding action

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“Holding Action!”, Joe Severin and Archie Goodwin for Blazing Combat #2

[protoslacker]

What does opposition do that resistance doesn’t? It offers a positive agenda for a better social contract, embedded in institutional transformations. Like, for example, everything that Dems don’t ever propose: real universal healthcare, public media, public higher education, debt relief, real safety nets, and so on. A social contract — whole and full and true.

Umair Haque in Bad Words at Medium. (Why) The Resistance Is Losing

[inanimategrace]

Holding Action

Letters, be the memory of this moment, Ruth's 3-legged Golden Lab sniffing for news beneath the hedge, grass glittering with rain, the bird feeder mangled by our car.

Years from now I want to remember how we walked the splendid earth and saw it. When children read this and smile at its old fashioned vision, then words, stubborn little boxcars

lugging meaning across the rickety wood bridge to the future, hold, hold. Couple against time, bear the red geranium, the slender birch— you, sentences- glitter against

the massive dark of nothing. Tell of feet that buffed this doorsill till it gleams, of cartwheeling children. Remember the Rosetta stone, the hum of Xerox machines,

remember monks copying, how a prisoner in solitary picked up a pebble to scribble stories on the wall. Letters, I tell you, even if your paper yellows in the attic,

even if it's torn and thrown into the sea, each of you separate from your brothers, swim through the ocean, row across the sky, walk through the wasteland, find a reader. Stay together. Hold.

Jeanne Murray Walker

[sunlightthroughwater]

Remember the Rosetta stone, the hum of Xerox machines, remember monks copying, how a prisoner in solitary picked up a pebble to scribble stories on the wall. Letters, I tell you, even if your paper yellows in the attic, even if it’s torn and thrown into the sea, each of you separate from your brothers, swim through the ocean, row across the sky, walk through the wasteland, find a reader. Stay together. Hold.

~  Jeanne Murray Walker, from “Holding Action,” The Hudson Review