Be kind to yourself and your brain worms. Your brain worms are stupid, but they’re trying to help the only way they know how. Make peace with the fact that when you feel them munching on your brain, they’re warning you that something is wrong and you need to take care of yourself.

A sense of community means that there is trust, communication, accountability, vulnerability, honesty, investment, and more. Those fundamental building blocks are important not just in the relationship between members of the community, but in the relationship each person has to the community as a being.

I say all of that to say that it’s taken me 21 years to accept that I will never be this perfect, infallible, faultless, irreproachable person. It’s really fucking hard to acknowledge when we make a misstep or falter, and in the past year I’ve been able to find 3 really key factors that contribute to that.

So I’m taking a step back, and using this time to read, instrospect, talk, and listen. I don’t know if it’s selfish or selfless, but I do know that it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that I see liberation as a process as much as an end goal. So I’m going to dig deep into my organizing and liberation process instead of beating myself up over not doing enough for others.