In hindsight, the dragonslaying blog was the root of #thingsgoingawesome, which is all about finding the beauty amongst the dark, embracing as Glennon Doyle Melton says, our broken parts, the things that make life "brutiful." It's about embracing love even - especially and most fiercely - in the face of fear. This election season has been steeped in fear. The fear seems palpable, like smog, making it positively (for some of us literally) hard to breath at times. In October, a NC Republican party office was firebombed. It was a dark moment, one that made manifest some of our deepest fears about the election - fear of violence, fear of our fellow citizens, fear, fear, fear. And just when I started to feel like maybe this fear was bigger than us, right on cue, love showed up. Specifically in this case, it showed up in the form of a GoFundMe page started by a group of Dems who also know that when fear is thickest, we need to spread more love. When I went to make a donation myself less than 24 hours later, I found it the fund was closed, having exceeded its goal in less than 40 minutes. As I started scrolling through, looking at the donations and reading the comments, I began to cry. Not because I was scared, but because for the first time in weeks, I was hopeful. Most donations were left quietly, without comment. But many were accompanied by a note, each one a love letter - to the NC office staff, to America, to democracy and humanity. I went through the nearly 600 donations, copying each and every comment, knowing that things may likely get worse before they get better, that then would be time that we need to be reminded of the good, of what holds us together instead of what threatens to tear us apart. Here they are, my election eve gift to you, as a reminder that like it or not, we are truly one human family. I invite you to share your own thoughts of unity and healing in the comments. The fund was set up by mostly Dems, so the comments skew that way, but if you have comments of common ground or healing from conservative friends or if you'd like to share a comment yourself, please leave it below.
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