It's about the journey, sure, but this looks like it's going to get somewhere. Disengagement is disingenuous.
Here’s a time lapse view of today’s demonstration in #Nashville from the balcony outside the @TNHouseReps #NashvilleProtests @Tennessean pic.twitter.com/t7vA7bqorL— Joel Ebert (@joelebert29) June 4, 2020
On ordinary days we each walk alone or with a companion or two on the sidewalks, and the streets are used for transit and for commerce. On extraordinary days—on the holidays that are anniversaries of historic and religious events and on the days we make history ourselves—we walk together, and the whole street is for stamping out the meaning of the day. Walking, which can be prayer, sex, communion with the land, or musing, becomes speech in these demonstrations and uprisings, and a lot of history has been written with the feet of citizens walking through their cities... It could be called marching, in that it is common movement toward a common goal, but the participants have not surrendered their individuality... Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
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