are you ok is code for we are not ok

What you do, when you are not allowed to vote and the issue at hand is whether you deserve to live, is buy art that reminds you how to survive.

What you do, when you need to channel the courage and the teachings and the rage of those who walked this road before, is read and read and read and write and read.

What you do, when you need to be reminded to keep breathing, is find the places with the food with the music with the accents that signal yes, you are welcome here.

Wake up the next morning and exhale I am the ocean, I will overcome into the bathroom mirror. Square your shoulders and inhale I am a mountain, I am grounded in the earth.