“I just. I don’t even know."
I have been trying to figure out how to express my feeling for the past week. The appropriately powerful and precise words and phrases have escaped me. I wanted to talk to my closest friend about it and I struggled with the words even with her. My gut reaction is that I am incredibly heartbroken as I watch a country I love tear itself apart. While I have been aware of the divides in our country for most of my life, especially my adult years, I haven’t known how to have an impact outside of my own views and actions. I still don’t, to be honest, however I want to figure it out. One theme I have read and heard in the last few days is that staying silent isn’t an option. If staying silent puts me on the side of hate, I am going to speak up, even with imperfect words. I am not on the side of any kind of hatred. I am not on the side that makes people I love scared for their lives and those of their children. I don’t know what it fee...