When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.
In beginning such work we take endings into our own hands, perhaps for the first time. And this is exactly what I see students doing; acknowledging the despair and rage of countless unchosen endings, and asking again and again “what life must become going forward.” It is an empowering and world-making shift.