Emily Cunningham

Holy shit this is good. Thanks for pointing me here, Calum. "The Miraculous Hope of Climate Realists" by @erikasiegfriedhttps://twitter.com/steelghost1978/status/1108025315077558277 …

.@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."