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I read this novel by Kyung-sook Shin a couple of years ago but felt that these words were relevant now more than ever. We have to be careful and our world leaders really have to be careful. We have to take responsibility and move forward but we also have to examine the ways in which we have corruption in violence in our personal lives and systematically in our society and work to eliminate these things.

Some simple examples of course are be careful how you treat people and animals. Don't eat animals or lessen your consumption of them (I've lived very happily as a vegetarian for almost 30 years and as a vegan for 5-6 years and I don't miss meat or feel that I need it to survive). Be patient with those who need more time to move or to think. Realize that you can only own your own choices and know your own stress and so when you are confronted with an unknown soul, that person may be struggling in her, his, or their own ways with a personal history that you are unaware of. Be aware that there can be a violence in actions but also in words. Be careful of the things you say and the gestures you make.

Work to end the systems of able-ism, classism and racism that keep us all imprisoned. Advocate for your communities to be accessible for all people. Donate goods, food, and money to charities that look out for our most vulnerable. Understand that racism is a complex pattern of underinvesting in neighborhoods, housing, food access, healthcare, employment, environment and access to clean air and water, and schools. Racism also profits from people of color being profiled and arrested for crimes they didn't commit and being placed into for profit prisons that white people benefit from financially.

We must also understand that these are times in which our society is most vulnerable to misleading leaders profiting off of these systems already in place in a more extreme way...so that trillion dollar bailout the US just passed...it had yet another tax cut to the top 1% hidden in it. There are especially in the US lots of loopholes and unrelated items that get sneaked into bills that are supposed to be about Coronavirus relief only. We cannot trust many of the politicians who are supposed to represent and lead us.

Here's a link to a review of I'll Be Right There in case you want to know more about this book, which I found to be a worthwhile read (As well as her other novel Please Look After Mom):

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/books/review/ill-be-right-ther...

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