Thank you for this. It was such a relief to see your name pop up in my in-box. You have always had a gift for expressing the malestrom of emotions that afflict me "in times like these." I still have your piece "Fifteen Things for When the World is Shitty and Terrifying" tacked to the bulletin board where we keep our family calendar and insurance renewal notifications and the like. Nov. 2015. I couldn't remember what the inciting incident was. Laquan MacDonald's murder has long faded from our collective memories. It gutted me to realize that we have been living in a nightmare for so long, continuously in trauma/survival mode with only brief moments of peace, instead of the other way around. Thank you for being out there, for taking the time and energy to write this. I so needed to be reminded that my own paralysis is normal -- it's this fucking country that is NOT normal. Thank you.
Thank you for this. It was such a relief to see your name pop up in my in-box. You have always had a gift for expressing the malestrom of emotions that afflict me "in times like these." I still have your piece "Fifteen Things for When the World is Shitty and Terrifying" tacked to the bulletin board where we keep our family calendar and insurance renewal notifications and the like. Nov. 2015. I couldn't remember what the inciting incident was. Laquan MacDonald's murder has long faded from our collective memories. It gutted me to realize that we have been living in a nightmare for so long, continuously in trauma/survival mode with only brief moments of peace, instead of the other way around. Thank you for being out there, for taking the time and energy to write this. I so needed to be reminded that my own paralysis is normal -- it's this fucking country that is NOT normal. Thank you.
Yup to all of it. It’s overwhelming. Take care of yourself, my friend.
Thank you for writing it.
This is what I would write, if I could express my feelings as well as you do.
- A "Nice White Gentleman"