If a silver lining can be found through this enormous tragedy, it is the re-discovery of community and compassion. We have been harshly shoved into riveted attention, recalibrating our values and priorities.
We choose love over hate, action over passivity, and seek the core humanity in all those we encounter. We find connection with our neighbors and cohesion in our community. If this re-awakening of our American soul emerges, then Renee Good and Alex Pretti will not have died in vain.
“What Minnesota is showing us, in real time, is the antidote to that normalization is stubborn, unglamorous humanity. Mutual, defiant, deeply human community is still doing the work the state refuses to do. More than any press release or personnel shuffle, this is where legitimacy now lives.”
May these powerful words resonate now and in history!
I hope you in Minnesota know how much your bravery and humanity mean to millions, even billions, of us who stand with you from afar. You inspire courageous, dignified resistance to the dead eyed MAGA monsters who now reign.
I, too, dissolved into tears when I heard about taps being played for Alex. He was my son's age. I cannot imagine the pain his family feels. If I may copy and paste a comment made by RT Rybak (former Mpls mayor from 2002 to 2014), I'll add it here as a link:
Hi Folks. This comment may be slightly off-topic; but I strongly suspect that many here will pick up on it's prophetic (spooky?) relevance as to what is happening in the USA today.
[From Carl Sagan's book 'The 'Demon-Haunted World' - 1997]
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy;
when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries;
when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issue;
when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;
when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscope, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true,
we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second soundbites, lowest-common denominator programming, creduluous presentation on pseudo science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
If a silver lining can be found through this enormous tragedy, it is the re-discovery of community and compassion. We have been harshly shoved into riveted attention, recalibrating our values and priorities.
We choose love over hate, action over passivity, and seek the core humanity in all those we encounter. We find connection with our neighbors and cohesion in our community. If this re-awakening of our American soul emerges, then Renee Good and Alex Pretti will not have died in vain.
Mary you beat me to it…CARE. There is no CARE in lies. Lying is always a subversion.
Thank you Minnesota for stand up CARING. They stood for the truth, showing magnificently how to …
Bravo👏
Empathy is our superpower. 💕
“What Minnesota is showing us, in real time, is the antidote to that normalization is stubborn, unglamorous humanity. Mutual, defiant, deeply human community is still doing the work the state refuses to do. More than any press release or personnel shuffle, this is where legitimacy now lives.”
May these powerful words resonate now and in history!
I hope you in Minnesota know how much your bravery and humanity mean to millions, even billions, of us who stand with you from afar. You inspire courageous, dignified resistance to the dead eyed MAGA monsters who now reign.
Yes. May it spread and propagate like wildfire.
My heart breaks also. 💔
I, too, dissolved into tears when I heard about taps being played for Alex. He was my son's age. I cannot imagine the pain his family feels. If I may copy and paste a comment made by RT Rybak (former Mpls mayor from 2002 to 2014), I'll add it here as a link:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BffNBpx9B/
Hi Folks. This comment may be slightly off-topic; but I strongly suspect that many here will pick up on it's prophetic (spooky?) relevance as to what is happening in the USA today.
[From Carl Sagan's book 'The 'Demon-Haunted World' - 1997]
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy;
when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries;
when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issue;
when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;
when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscope, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true,
we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second soundbites, lowest-common denominator programming, creduluous presentation on pseudo science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
(Carl Sagan)
One day, what is said and done in secret will be shouted from the rooftops...