KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought #16 on Ending Terrorism ~ Root Out Terrorism in the One to Root it Out in the Many

KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought #16 on Ending

Terrorism ~ Root Out Terrorism in the One to Root it Out in

the Many

Once the terrorism of self-doubt and self-destructive behavior

(self-terrorism) is rooted out of the world within our children

we must make sure it’s rooted out of the world around them.

We say we’ll protect them and we must.

If we’re escorting them to their afterschool program the day a

murdered woman’s body is found across the street from the

school and we see “F@& Taft” graffitied on that street, then

we graffiti a big Banksy* “Dream Big” over it.

If a hit is taken in retaliation one day then we simply get back

up and graffiti an even bigger Banksy “Do Big” the next day.

If there’s an even bigger retaliation and a new “F@#&”

painted on the street, then we rest, heal and then Banksy the

biggest “DO BIG” over the top of that in all capital letters.

If the bike and rider is totaled in a crash then that rider is

going to come back bigger and stronger and smarter than

ever and make sure that every one of those kids worth

protecting becomes so big, so smart, and so strong that the

grasp of terrorism and fear will lose its grip on them forever.

This is our classroom, our school, our community, our country

and OUR planet.

If you persist in knocking us down we will insist on getting

back up. If you insist on knocking us down harder we will

persist in getting back up stronger. If you try to kill us we will

become limitless.

And when we die, whether it be by the chance of your

misfortune or by nature’s changing course untrimmed; Our

eternal summer shall not fade

Nor shall we lose possession of the beauty that is within us;

Nor shall Death brag we have wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time our thoughts and words grow'st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.**

We are warrior poets. This is how it is in our classroom. This

is how it is in our world. We can’t be defeated.

*Banksy is an England-based graffiti artist, political activist

and film director of unverified identity.

**Adapted from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ! Shall I compare

thee to a summer’s day?

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