Love is coming.
Love is coming to us all.
Those are some of the lyrics from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Carry On,” a song, from 1970, that was written during the era of the Vietnam war. So much violence, so much blood shed, and here at home so many protesting, pushing, fighting back against the imperialist forces of the United States.
Sometimes, when I listen to these songs, I can hear my own mom’s voice, I can feel her comforting presence, because my mom was a feminist, she was anti-war, and she absolutely embodied the free spirit of the 1960s and 1970s in so many ways, and I miss her dearly.
If she were here, now, I think she would tell me the same words I hear when I listen to my favorite songs: we can’t give up, we have to keep fighting, we have to keep loving, we have to carry on.
So I will carry on, and I will invite you to do the same with me. You don’t have to be alone in this. We are in this together.
.Red
