Looks like we are done.

[ariadne0614]

22. There's no reason to be sorry-- I welcome your assessment of the situation.

It bears repeating, because you are not alone. If a critical mass of the majority of us who are fed up with this game refuse to shut up and sit down, then A Change Is Gonna Come.

Today this Mary Oliver quote came up on my FB feed, from a group called Hell and Earth:

"We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many.
We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness."

One of the comments on the thread seemed particularly relevant to me:

“I appreciate the powerful words that are written here, these are the things that I am unable to articulate. I am comforted when another human being articulates my internal fears. . .Thank you for sharing, I was listening 🙏🏻🌈🎶”