Do not go gentle
I went to an interfaith rally at the local ICE headquarters a few months ago, right at the height of fury over family separations at the border. Leaders from several faiths spoke, including a young Buddhist. During his emotional speech about his abhorrence of the situation, he said, “You might be surprised at how angry I sound, because I am a Buddhist teacher. But let me remind you, the samurai were Buddhists. And I am here today to be a samurai.” He adapted Dylan Thomas and urged us to, “in the face of fear and hopelessness, rage against the dying of the light.” Rage is all the rage right now. This Op Ed nails it. At the end, after identifying the power of the fury burning across American women right now, she says: But then the world will come and tell you that you shouldn’t get mad again, because you were kind of nuts and you never cooked dinner and you yelled at the TV and weren’t so pretty and life will be easier when you get fun again. And it will be awfully temp