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Yvette Walker's avatar

“While everyone was a bit freaked and hearteningly cautious …. .” We all did come together for a bit. But only for a bit. I think a lot about historical events, events that required fortitude and stamina and everything human beings could give. We love to make movies out of these events and enjoy peoples’ courage as entertainment. But when asked to fully participate in a similar event ourselves, right now, people whine and complain and get pissed off and chillingly don’t want to save other peoples lives, not because they can’t but because it’s inconvenient to them. The narcissism is stunning, from mostly everyone I know.

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Valerie, another excellent… what do I call your incredible written voice. It’s not an article in the sense of being 2-dimensional, words on paper. For those of us walking this tightrope of seemingly threadbare string, it is 3-dimensional - entering our minds, hearts, and souls. We hold each word, feel it, examine it, experience it and set it back down in the sentence. You bring us together in love, in intense frustration, in fear such as we have never known, in despair and depression, in sick humor (the healthy kind), in tears, in hope, in loneliness, in sadness, in utter disbelief, and in a sense of unity we can rarely find.

Thank you again.

I hold us all in prayer, the one place I can find peace. Sometimes it is a desperate peace but sometimes it is a loving and embracing peace. And I am grateful for both.

- Jane

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