The trees heard a constant murmuring, of individuals and of groups of people, all saying the word, maybe even chanting or occasionally yelling: “TRUNK,” TRUNK,” “TRUNK.” Hearing was never their strongest asset.
We must now find ways to live through this interval where yet another Republican rich-kid brat has dramatically lowered the bar and thereby won the game. Without winning the vote. (Why must we call it "popular?" The vote is the vote.)
In the middle of all the stuff, I spotted a precious moment. Sometimes so much is going on, I can get dizzy. Focusing on a small, precious, simple thing can ground and comfort me. And keep me sane.
In his letter to the editor, Dennis Irvine writes: “Establish, encourage and empower farming and food transport that reduces or eliminates fossil fuel use.”
In her letter to the editor, Tiffany Wilding-White writes: “Our children are growing up in a world where many human rights on which America was built are in peril: clean air and water, safe schools, equal rights for women, minorities, and immigrants.”
I want you to think about what it feels like to me that so many of my fellow Americans hate me, and that I have no idea why. That I have no clue as to what we ever did to deserve this.
In her letter to the editor, Sharon Coleman writes of the election: "I’ve been shaken. I feel a sick lump of terror that kind of comes and goes. I have worked on calming and caring for myself."
For a moment, I felt it was the 60s again, and I was back marching against the Vietnam War. I felt exhilarated, but I knew I would feel let down a few hours later.
In his letter to the editor, Matt Whalan writes: “If you are afraid, calm down. You are not trapped. We are not stuck with Trump. Trump is stuck with us.”
Meet me at a candlelight gathering tomorrow, Saturday, November 12, at 5 at the Mason Library in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and bring your kids. We need to show them what the opposite of a bully looks like.
In her letter to the editor, Dawn Lane of Stockbridge, Mass. asks: “How did our need for change get twisted and land on a platform of hate, xenophobia, and ignorance?”
