List for today:

Rescue tadpoles from the evaporating puddle
in the driveway.
Look for pink roses in the field.b2ap3_thumbnail_100728699_2662578040621068_2044351931215773696_o.jpg
Look for wild strawberries
along the road.
Listen to the crows in
the compost pile
and try to identify them
by their different voices.
Plant basil and calendula
and a few more rows of lettuce.
Examine the buds beginning
on the elderberries
and check blackberry canes
to see if the berries have set.
Watch the yellow swallowtail butterflies dance.
Wonder about action and apathy
and what bridges gaps.
Refuse to surrender belief in joy.
Listen for faint echoes of hope.
Feel the tender beat of humanity
pulsing in the world.
Feel the sun on your face
and water seeping
into your jeans.
Remember that even if you have to
move one tadpole at a time,
change is always possible.

Note: My role with this blog at SageWoman has never been to write about current events, but rather to write about small magic, everyday enchantment, practical priestessing, ritual theory, goddess art, and the poetry of daily life. I had a great deal of difficulty deciding where to focus my attention for this post--whether to risk performative allyship or white posturing or virtue signaling by writing an activism-oriented post, whether to risk perpetuating white silence and denial or even a type of toxic positivity, by saying nothing and just writing about tadpoles. So, I decided to postscript my poem this month with some useful resources for white people seeking appropriate resources for anti-racist action and our own inner work of unpacking white privilege and systemic racism in our lives. 

Resources: