Love, Joy, Peace, Compassion, Kindness, Community, Malleability, Surrender, Forgiveness, . . .

These words, which I just wrote, heal me from the intenses ravages of seeting hatred I've recently experienced. Forgiveness is key. I pray for grace to forgive religion, nationalism, greed, ambition, cruelty, hatred, ignorance, backwardness, division, seething rage, murder, rape, incest, and those who have committed these and other heinous acts of barbarity. I'm not going to spend a great deal of time in carving up the meaning of the "forgiveness." Goddammnit, I'm just going to do it. It all begins with non-hatred. Non-hatred by be ocean deep, but I've entered the water, legs first, meaning it won't really start counting until I'm fully immersed -- in the other side of this, one of many pairs of opposites. The sunny side of the equation that bears the marks of both.