Turning the other cheek is a way of moving toward the light. It’s a movement that calls for healing, despite appearances and base reaction. It’s a movement toward the most benevolent outcome for all.

Why did I write that? No idea.

Well, not quite. I’m thinking of how to think about people going to prison for January 6. How to end the whataboutism of the situation. And the violence we are confronted with in our daily lives, sometimes in the form of outward confrontation, sometimes of our own impulses, or those around us, held in check. Thinking. Meditating. Healing.

We are almost there. We are so close to a better world.

Here’s Daisy:

To make Routine a Stimulus

Remember it can cease –

Capacity to terminate

Is a specific Grace –

Of Retrospect the Arrow

That power to repair

Departed with the torment

Become, alas, more fair –

Emilie Dickinson

A postscript to Man Without Country collection