{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "wash-your-hands-2041", "title": "Wash Your Hands", "author": "Bex Lipps", "author_handle": "becca-lipps", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "WASH YOUR HANDS We are humans relearning to wash our hands.  Washing our hands is an act of love Washing our hands is an...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<h1>WASH YOUR HANDS</h1>\n\n<p>We are humans relearning to wash our hands. <br />\nWashing our hands is an act of love<br />\nWashing our hands is an act of care<br />\nWashing our hands is an act that puts the hypervigilant body at ease <br />\nWashing our hands helps us return to ourselves by washing away what does not serve.</p>\n\n<p><br />\nWash your hands <br />\nlike you are washing the only teacup left that your great grandmother carried across the ocean, like you are washing the hair of a beloved who is dying, like you are washing the feet of Grace Lee Boggs, Beyonce, Jesus, your auntie, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver- you get the picture. <br />\nLike this water is poured from a jug your best friend just carried for three miles from the spring they had to climb a mountain to reach.<br />\nLike water is a precious resource <br />\nmade from time and miracle</p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>Wash your hands and cough into your elbow, they say.<br />\nRest more, stay home, drink water, have some soup, they say.<br />\nTo which I would add: burn some plants your ancestors burned when there was fear in the air,<br />\nBoil some aromatic leaves in a pot on your stove until your windows steam up.<br />\nOpen your windows <br />\nEat a piece of garlic every day. Tie a clove around your neck. <br />\nBreathe.</p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>My friends, it is always true, these things.<br />\nIt has already been time.<br />\nIt is always true that we should move with care and intention, asking<br />\nDo you want to bump elbows instead? with everyone we meet.<br />\nIt is always true that people are living with one lung, with immune systems that don’t work so well, or perhaps work too hard, fighting against themselves. It is already true that people are hoarding the things that the most vulnerable need. <br />\nIt is already time that we might want to fly on airplanes less and not go to work when we are sick.<br />\nIt is already time that we might want to know who in our neighborhood has cancer, who has a new baby, who is old, with children in another state, who has extra water, who has a root cellar, who is a nurse, who has a garden full of elecampane and nettles. <br />\nIt is already time that temporarily non-disabled people think about people living with chronic illness and disabled folks, that young people think about old people.<br />\nIt is already time to stop using synthetic fragrances to not smell like bodies, to pretend like we’re all not dying. It is already time to remember that those scents make so many of us sick. <br />\nIt is already time to not take it personally when someone doesn’t want to hug you.<br />\nIt is already time to slow down and feel how scared we are. </p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>We are already afraid, we are already living in the time of fires.</p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>When fear arises, <br />\nand it will,<br />\nlet it wash over your whole body instead of staying curled up tight in your shoulders.<br />\nIf your heart tightens,<br />\ncontract<br />\nand expand.<br />\nscience says: compassion strengthens the immune system<br />\nWe already know that, but capitalism gives us amnesia<br />\nand tricks us into thinking it’s the thing that protect us<br />\nbut it’s the way we hold the thing.<br />\nThe way we do the thing.</p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>Those of us who have forgotten amuletic traditions, <br />\nwe turn to hoarding hand sanitizer and masks. <br />\nwe find someone to blame. <br />\nwe think that will help. <br />\nwant to blame something? <br />\nBlame capitalism. Blame patriarchy. Blame white supremacy. </p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>It is already time to remember to hang garlic on our doors<br />\nto dip our handkerchiefs in thyme tea<br />\nto rub salt on our feet<br />\nto pray the rosary, kiss the mezuzah, cleanse with an egg.<br />\nIn the middle of the night,<br />\nwhen you wake up with terror in your belly, <br />\nit is time to think about stardust and geological time<br />\nredwoods and dance parties and mushrooms remediating toxic soil.<br />\nit is time<br />\nto care for one another<br />\nto pray over water<br />\nto wash away fear<br />\nevery time we wash our hands</p>\n\n<p>.</p>\n\n<p>by Dori Midnight</p>", "cliptype": "", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 181, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Wash Your Hands | Passover haggadah by Bex Lipps", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Through this traditionally ordered ritual, we will retell the story of the Israelites’ journey out of Egypt, eat special foods that symbolize Pesach's many messages, and teach each other the traditions of Pesach, first celebrated more than 3,000 years ago. The seder's ritual order provides a moment for reflection. Upholding tradition gives us something to look forward to. And, the gathering of community comforts us in these challenging weeks. Thanks for coming to this seder!</p>\n\n<p>Passover is rich in social justice themes. It is impossible to study the story of our redemption and not feel compelled to eradicate injustice in the world today. Among the primary social justice themes found in the Exodus story and in the Passover observance are hunger and homelessness and oppression and redemption.Due to our hasty retreat from Egypt, we were limited to the food carried on our backs – the unleavened bread that we were unable to thoroughly prepare. Our experience with hardship following the exodus from Egypt inspires us to consider those who eat the metaphorical “bread of affliction” in present times. As we say, “This is the bread of affliction which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all who are in want share the hope of Passover.” (Haggadah, “Ha Lachma Anya”)</p>\n\n<p>An ancient rabbinic text instructs us, “Each person in every generation must regard himself or herself as having been personally freed from Egypt” for the seder to be successful. The Seder is a time to acknowledge the privilieges that we may have: class, race, ability, gender, sexuality, ability, and others. In some way, we have all been \"freed from Egypt.\" We celebrate the freedoms that we do have, and turn our attention to those who are still opressed. We consider our role in society, and commit to yielding our privlege for the liberation of all.</p>\n\n<p>This year's Seder is unlike any before. 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