The Power of Defiant Joy
in a World on Fire
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What if joy—wild, defiant, radiant joy—
is our most powerful form of resistance?
What if love is not a sentiment, but a spiritual force,
sharpened in conviction and wielded with grace?
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I Hear the World
I hear the world right now.
I hear the anguish and the pain.
The scarcity.
The fear.
The quiet panic tucked behind daily routines.
I hear it in the headlines,
in rushed emails clients send me,
in the eyes of people who’ve forgotten how to look up.
And yes—it makes me rage.
It makes me burn with a fire I don’t always know what to do with.
But I know this:
This fear-fed way of living?
This obsession with dominance and division?
This isn’t the dream our ancestors whispered into our bones.
And it’s not the future our hearts ache to create.
I Stepped Into Defiant Joy
Somewhere in the middle of that heat—
between anger and heartbreak—
something opened.
A power I hadn’t fully named before.
Defiant joy.
Not a mood.
Not a mindset.
A force.
The kind that says:
Oh no, you won’t win.
You won’t take this from me.
The kind of joy Viktor Frankl carried through the camps—
when everything was taken but one thing:
His freedom to choose his own meaning.
His ability to feel awe.
His refusal to let hate touch his soul.
That.
That’s what I’m after.
So today, I stand in that lineage.
As a woman who has felt the pull to go numb—
and chosen something else.
I do not surrender my hope,
my beauty,
my light.
I Will Not Let You Steal My Beliefs
So no—
I will not hand over my hope to your headlines.
I will not be dragged into your drama and your debate.
You may belittle my gentle touch.
You may minimize what I carry.
You may try to shame me back into silence.
But I see through the illusion of control.
So I defy your systems.
I defy your judgments.
I defy your presumptions of control.
How?
I claim my joy.
I root myself in love.
I rise in full connection,
full aliveness,
full devotion to something greater.
There is beauty in this world, and in it,
wonder, epiphanies, community will teach us
how to be the best for one another.
The Call
So yes, I am calling you into action.
This economic warfare, greed, posturing requires
a revolution of the heart.
Go and love someone today.
Radically.
Quietly.
Fiercely.
Look at someone like they matter.
Hold their name in your mouth like it’s holy.
Speak it with reverence.
Let it soften you.
Choose tenderness.
Choose presence.
Because when we love—
deeply,
defiantly,
unapologetically—
we become untouchable.
And that is how the world begins to shift.
