One of the best things I’ve read on acceptance comes from an online friend of mine:

I would no sooner want my daughter straight than I would want my son white. It is the world I want to change, not my kids. Julia at IAT, with permission

I suppose, failing to change the world in one fell swoop, is to change ourselves.

Karin

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