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Kevin Robbins's avatar

Thank you Deborah for your wonderfully poetic post.

Wednesday felt like a death in the family the feeling I had at my mother’s passing. Despite being very Methodist I sat shiva that day and slept much better that night than the night before.

My plan is to double down on healthy habits mentally and physically. I’m committed to outlasting this foul man who has had such a corrosive effect on our country’s psyche.

In retirement, I read a lot of history. Britain during Queen Elizabeth I was a Protestant country much weaker than the Catholic behemoths of Spain and France. Patriots in 1776 faced insurmountable odds against that same country which had now become the global hegemon. Blacks have endured the 1860s and the 1960s.

George McGovern lost 49 states to Richard Nixon and yet Democrats have controlled the WH for 24 of the years since then. It’s not a time to give up.

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Kelly Winsa's avatar

The kids will get tired of the narrow and small and insignificant. Mine did.

This is not just a US problem. This narrow place is worldwide we cannot fix it. Like a birth canal, there is always a path through. The mirror fakery is what the kids see first. Fear makes them silent. I feel like an expert in this, having started when Trump started.

I like your photo. Living in Hawaii I saw this every night, in my nightgown, walking around cockroaches, the treasures of the islands.

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