A 20-Year-Old Message for an Age-Old Problem
Channel: Kat Fitzpatrick
Date: 18/03/2024

"Take heart, you were made for these times."

It's always a good time, it seems, to revisit Clarissa Pinkola Estes's 2001 letter . . . which is ever so relevant. As she says:

"Ours is a time of almost daily jaw-dropping astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people."

But it is good to remember that "we were made for these times," and that human beings have made it through daunting times before.

Full essay here: https://practicetogether.substack.com/i/142448921/do-not-lose-heart-we-were-made-for-these-times

I'm Kat Fitzpatrick, a freelance writer and teacher. 

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