Safety should be a birthright - Clemantine Wamariya

I want to really live in the present, and find love and joy in the world around me.

I wanted to piece [the] world back together, but the idea of one group of people killing another group of people—people they lived with, people they knew—that chunk of knowledge could never fit itself in my mind. It was categorically, dimensionally, fundamentally wrong. It was like trying to store a tornado in a chest of drawers. That was not how the universe worked.

My mom says tears are good for your skin.” And maybe your soul, too.