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Thriving and Resisting on a Narrow Bridge
“The entire world is a narrow bridge; the essential thing is not to fear at all.” Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
I've been thinking a lot about Resistance, what it is and what is possible to do. January 27th was the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and in commemoration, I watched a film called Resistance - They Fought Back. Many years ago, I read an anthology called They Fought Back, so I already knew a lot about the subject, but the film pushed me to remember some really important lessons about resistance.
Yes, there were partisans fighting in the forest, blowing up trains. Yes, there was the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the destruction of a crematorium at Auschwitz. Yes, young women became brave couriers sneaking guns and food into ghettos. All of these acts of resistance happened.
But what I forgot were the actions we might not immediately think about as resistance. Plays and concerts in the ghettos. Schools for young children. Hiding and smuggling out books before they could be destroyed. Creation of an archives of the Warsaw ghetto hidden in large milk cans and buried in the ground.
What I forgot about was keeping culture and education alive as acts of resistance.
With this reminder, I went online to look up the lyrics from Ferron's song, "It Won't Take Long", a song about resistance and thriving. Here are some of the most relevant lyrics:
Because grief will come in measures
Only grief alone will know
And you'll see it on your family
On your own face it will grow
And they'll try to keep you hungry
Then they'll tell you to eat snow
You know pride can be a moving thing
If we learn the strength of "NO!"
And it won't take long
It won't take too long at all
It won't take long, and you may say
"I don't think this has anything to do with me,"
"But did you ever think you could be wrong?"
At noon on one day coming
Human strength will fill the streets
Of every city on our planet
Hear the sound of angry feet
With business freezed up in the harbour
The kings will pull upon their hair
And the banks will shudder to a halt
AND THE ARTISTS WILL BE THERE
And beware you sagging diplomats
For you will not hear one gun
And though our homes be torn
And ransacked we will not be undone
For as we let ourselves be bought
We're gonna let ourselves be free
And if you think we stand alone
Look again and you will see:
We are children in the rafters
We are babies in the park
We are lovers at the movies
We are candles in the dark
We are changes in the weather
We are snowflakes in July
We are women grown together
We are men who easily cry
We are words not quickly spoken
We're the deeper side of try
We are dreamers in the making
We are not afraid of "Why?
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