The Next Four Years

Thoughts on how we get through what is coming

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There are many people who are (rightfully) asking about how we get through the next four years as inauguration day brings a preview of what is to come. I won’t speak to the statements made, they are as hollow as the head of the man who made them — but they are causing fear to many people I love and care about.

There are so many kind-hearted, caring, and loving people who are asking the same questions, and I would dearly love to have a time machine to be able to come back and give them the answers they need to feel safe and secure over the next four years.

I don’t have those answers.

I don’t have a time machine.

I don’t have a way to stop the things that are going to happen because of the man in the White House.

I’m at a loss here, and it makes me sad and scared to see the rhetoric that’s circulating today — words and phrases that may lead to violence.

I can’t fix it.

But I do know a way that we can make things a little bit better for the next four years. I know of a way that we can maybe get through things together and come out of this with our integrity intact. To not be drawn into the ugliness I see on the horizon.