Hall of Mirrors

Imagine yourself walking through a place where opposing mirrors bounce image back and forth, distort and project images so that you lose your sense of reality, the image of yourself and others. The only way out is to stop looking into those reflecting faces. Look up or look at your feet. Follow your gut, using all your senses such as sound and tactile pressures under your feet. Eventually, you will leave the maze of confusion.

This fraught moment in American history is like that. Turn off the electronic communications, call a friend or ask for a hug from family members. Recall the real reasons for living: friends and family and the great good Earth.

Bake bread, make soup, decorate for the changing season. We are coming up on the Fall Equinox, next weekend. The days are shortening, the night growing longer: all is a scurry about to prepare for the Big Sleep under white stars in an ebony night sky.

We need to reassure ourselves about what we value and how we can go forward. Though we cannot give up now to forces that intend to destroy our democratic republic, we must be strong and clear. Read history, gather for conversation. Give it time. Each of us must be clear headed now to discern the truth from lies.

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