Emily Cunningham

.@erikasiegfried on the #ClimateCrisis. Her whole piece... "There’s no simple “winning” when so much is lost. Not gone, but condemned. But look: it’s still beautiful, isn’t it. I’ll fight for that."

"each of us working to add our small piece to the whole, many of us weary of all this but cloaked in our miraculous hope, where despair can touch us but it can’t hold us for long, because we love & therefore we hope. And because this fight is far from over. It starts new each."

"The fight we signed up for is now the fight for what’s left and the people who get left with it. That’s all, really. But it’s also everything. And you, my weary friend, will never stop." #ClimateCrisis Goddamn this is a good piece. Thank you, @erikasiegfried

So happy I discovered the Finnish word sisu. it "gets crudely translated as determination, grit & courage. The Finnish side of my family liked to celebrate it. But it's meant to be more; something like extraordinary resoluteness & perseverance in the face of extreme adversity."

Other translations of sisu on Quora: "It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win." Will to win -- this attitude is so needed in the #climateCrisis

"Sisu is not momentary courage, but the ability to sustain that courage." "It stands for the philosophy that what must be done will be done, regardless of cost." Sisu is THE word embodying the fight in the #ClimateCrisis. Damn.