“If only there were a place where the living and the dead could meet, to tell their tales, to weep, I would reach for you — not so that you could forgive me, but so that you could know that I have no pride for what I have done, only the wisdom and regret that came too late.”
Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin, unlike absolutely
anyone else, family of brilliant funny people
who made this world better,
with law and with poems,
Kathy Boudin whose life has been
summarized and summarized
again without telling
people who did not know her,
though hordesof us did,
how she worked harder and smarter
than anyone I’ve ever known every single day
in prison and out, to make lives better
for women inside and women out,
for everyone lucky enough to cross her path,
Kathy Boudin, who smiled and wrote beautiful
poems about all she knew and all she felt
who founded, with Cheryl Wilkins,
the Center for Justice at Columbia University,
who didn’t stop working until she absolutely
had to, who will make the next world
whatever the circumstances, better too.
https://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/news/kathy-boudin-great-life-and-great-loss
This absolutely breaks my heart.
What a beautiful and moving tribute.