The news is ridiculous everywhere.
In #Colombia, a recent round of ceasefires ended, but the headline is misleading. ELN isn't launching a new strike at the government, but at other armed groups. It's accusing Clan del Golfo, a narcotrafficking outfit with delusions of political ends, of being in cahoots with state military. Meanwhile, dissident-FARC group Segunda Marquetalia is still interested in negotiating peace. It's just hard with so many actors.
Never a dull day here, I tell you what! 👌🏻
I think most of you know this, but it bears repeating:
I don't come to my more uplifting posts from a place of naïveté.
I have witnessed and experienced terrible things, and I live in a place where peace is an ongoing process in many regions.
I'm surrounded, though, by people who've spent their whole lives holding awfulness in balance with small gratitudes.
And we do something like that here, too, when we make space to hold trauma, *and also kindness*.
It isn't naïveté.
It's how we survive.
I work to deadlines, in a corporate environment, and most people find it highly stressful. I often have people ask me how I stay so calm.
I tell them, "Because I've been through real trauma. This is not that."