This week my friend Amy Hollingsworth (Author of “The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers” and co-author of “Runaway Radical”) posted a status that made me say “Can someone please turn this into a meme for me?” Which she did. With the message “your every wish.”

I posted this to my professional Dr. Christy Sim Facebook page and the ‘likes’ overflowed. It was as if we were giving voice to those who disclosed violence and heard horrible stuff in response.
Well then another friend made a meme, Brad Sargent (creative genius behind futurist guy) which looked like this:

And the hashtag #StuffNotToSay was born.
Here’s mine:

Here was Pamela Jacobs, JD (Advocate and Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Consultant):

And then my friend Doug Mullin chimed in with one that just got me right in the gut: 

And this one:

There were so many good memes that have come from this one Facebook status. It’s amazing.
People are using their creativity and aligning with others in a common hashtag to say- we can respond better. Let’s not say these things.
And then my friend came up with this, what TO say, so I thought I would end with that:

What would your meme say?

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