[Sticky] Request or give emotional support

@journeywithme2 Hugs to you ❤❤❤.  Alcohol addiction is a horrible disease. Hugs to your son ad well.❤❤❤

@dannyboy 

Really a fantastic photo!  Your smile is brilliant!

And about ripples.  I really have thought a lot about them over the past few years.  What an excellent example you have given on their impact.  Thank you for sharing that story here with us all. 

@journeywithme2 My friend you have my prayers, my energy, and my light all headed to your son.  May this temproary setback be just that - a temporary setback.

@dannyboy and @pafc

thank you both -much appreciated!🙏🏻💚🪽💚🙏🏻

I am not sure where this next bit goes... I was meditating on my son, on Joe Biden... on all that is going on ....

and... I got this earworm out of the ethers and heard a loving , rueful chuckle as it began to play : 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=8zLeu4xx56JtIOXk&v=211myGaCEhc&feature=youtu.be

@journeywithme2 For what it's worth, when I clicked the link I was greeted by two ads and then the very slow opening, so - to remind myself how the song went, I skipped forward and landed at 1:52 and the lyrics "So don't surrender 'cause you can win in this thing called love..." 

Seems important.  😉

@dannyboy sorry about that .... advertising gonna squeeze in there every chance it gets I reckon. 

bottom line: love wins ... and that's the way it is.

I'm going to request emotional support for everyone here (including myself) who has been shaken by tonight's events.

Obviously, none of us wants a climate where political violence is practiced openly.

But I still want to live in a democracy.  I fear this was the final nail in democracy's coffin...  😪 😫 😩 

@autistic_anthony 

Sending calm and caring to you. This is not a nail in a coffin. Democracy is like an Oak with deep roots in an intense storm. The great Tree stands and will NOT fall. ❤️ 

@autistic_anthony 

The words of @tesseract are beautifully very wise and true. 

Heed them. 

Lots of prayers for the 2 people in critical condition ( according to the latest from the Secret Service) and their families, and the family of the rally attendee who was killed.  Nobody deserves this. Nobody.  I am grateful the former president is not seriously injured. 

May our Secret Service learn from this to better protect those they are entrusted to keep safe. They will also need our prayers as will all of those who attended the rally.  Lots of emotional trauma for them today. 

Posted by: @tesseract

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@autistic_anthony 

Sending calm and caring to you. This is not a nail in a coffin. Democracy is like an Oak with deep roots in an intense storm. The great Tree stands and will NOT fall. ❤️ 

Thank you, @Tesseract

Like many others on this forum, I had great difficulty sleeping last night.  Lots of numbness and anxiety coursing through my body.

The only thing I can think of, to do (on my part), is write more advocacy letters.  And make sure I'm denouncing all violence across the board within the letters themselves.