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Hold On Tight
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Los Angeles airport with friends from my synagogue to protest the Muslim Ban. We wanted to show our Jewish support. We were there for hours, chanting with the thousands who had gathered. I walked away with hope that we, the people, would keep our democracy on track. Tonight, with all the chaos created by the White House, I’m scared. How are you coping?
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I stand behind our President. I’m a lifelong democrat but the election is over. We ought to come together as a country. I got off f.b. and I don’t watch the news anymore. It really doesn’t affect me
Hey Mike, Welcome to FPS. What brings you to this site?
Hi Wendy,
I don’t know how I ended up here. I got you in my favorites and I follow you. Maybe cause we are single? 🙂
Sounds right. I appreciate your sharing your viewpoint, even when we’re not in agreement.
I have a little bit of poetry in calligraphy on my desk, and I look at it every day:
“And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate — but there is no competition —
there is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
(TS Eliot, Four Quartets)
Beautiful. And I agree about the cycle of found and lost again and again. No use moaning. Just get busy.