My browser has been full of tabs lately, and half of them are devoted to finals week nonsense, but the other half are full of encouraging things happening in the world. I thought I would share:
1. People are celebrating Nelson Mandela. This is to be expected. But the exciting part is that not only are people celebrating him, but many people are not watering him down in the process. I've seen a lot of people posting things like this, that remember Mandela for some of the controversial and unpopular things he spent his life fighting for. I hope those challenging and transformative kinds of things can be what we continue to remember and share.
2. Especially lately, I've been empowered by thinking outside of the box when it comes to my own life, and so seeing other people realizing they have the power to step outside the normal ways of doing things and be creative to address a problem gives me a lot of joy.
3. Police, as an aggregate, are really hard for me to respect sometimes, because of the way they are tied to some really corrupt systems. But these police in Thailand give me a lot of hope.
