A Steadfast Peace By Catherine Viel Posted June 28, 2022

[Manuel Tavares]

A Steadfast Peace
By Catherine Viel
Posted June 28, 2022
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-steadfast-peace.html

How do other people bear
what you are still afraid of? The answer
is that when big things happen
you do go through the looking glass,
but it is still you who goes through,
the inner text is all still right to left,
so you just keep reading.
~Jennifer Michael Hecht, Steady, Steady



I sit in my front yard with the first cup of coffee, the hard plastic bench uncomfortable but acceptable as a brief place of rest.

The neighborhood is Sunday quiet. The doctor who lives catercorner across the street returns from Sunday morning yoga, a brief respite from kids and husband. Two doors down, white balloons droop forlornly from a mailbox, evidence of another neighbor’s Saturday night Solstice party.

I know these people to speak to, casual chats, the occasional strategy sessions when fires are threatening and the decision to stay or leave has a communal flavor. We all go, or we all stay.

But do I know them? No. Do they know me? No.

It’s marginally possible that they, too, are following breadcrumbs that lead down rabbit holes. That they, too, are aware of the switch that was flipped by the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade ruling on June 24. (1)

It’s far more likely that they not only haven’t dived into the rabbit holes...+
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