Apr 03, 2020
Shlomo and Fanya
The girl, a matchmaker, asked to see Shlomo’s hand. Reaching from her coat pocket, she pressed a tarot card-sized photo into his palm.
When this pandemic is over, we hope to reopen our doors and offer comfort and sanctuary to our communities—as women of color so often have.
They suggest that we can get through adversity, that things could always be worse. And sometimes, the best of these stories are genuinely full of love.
I see a wall as tantamount to rejection: to create a physical barrier is to reject the possibility of familiarity.
