RISE UP: A Letter to Hillary
Beautiful letter to our gal 
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RISE UP: A Letter to Hillary
By BNR Staff
April 17, 2016
Kori Dryhurst Coates writes a letter to Hillary Clinton.
Dear Secretary Clinton,
You don’t know me but still, I hope you’ll get this letter. I have no expectation that my words are unique…even so, I have to write them. This is not a practical letter, nor is it relevant in any context but the emotional. I’m sitting at my computer typing this and crying hot, frustrated tears.
My chest is burning on the inside, my hands are a little shaky, and my cheeks are bright red. The physical manifestations of intolerable injustice are wreaking havoc with my zen. So…I’m writing.
I’ve admired you my entire adult life. I was a new mother when you moved into the White House. I was a new mother, a new wife, alone in a country not my own, and surrounded by strangers. I was idealistic, puristic, and more than a little insufferable. Your example as First Lady played a significant role in helping me determine the kind of woman I wanted to be.
You weren’t always perfect and oh how that liberated me from the idea that perfection was something to which I should even aspire. In fact, because of you I came to really like the imperfections. The flaws and the mistakes. Broken vessels are more beautiful for the mending. As Leonard Cohen says “cracks are how the light gets in”.
Last year I started reading Hard Choices. Right then I had some ‘hard choices’ of my own to make and the book title alone urged me to pass over others and dive directly into yours. Thank you for – albeit unknowingly – naming your book so perfectly for me. I’m not sure I would have learned as much or weathered as well my own storm if it were not for the inspiration I took from you.......................
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Beautiful!
Thank you for sharing that.
It is beautiful!!
Thankie rivers.
