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Dear Stephen -- Your words are helping me process as I allow myself to stay for awhile in this liminal space, the space between what I hoped and believed and what is happening. Thank you for every single word.

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Thank you for these inspiring words. Waking this morning to the news my heart pulsated then this beautiful poem emerged through calming me and so share with everyone!

The old story isn’t yet

finished. We stay with

hope, faith and Love

to its final ending!

Meanwhile our new

story is still in early

beginnings!

Close your eyes with

great compassion as

We end a story long in

its history of separating

and dividing us all!

Envision our new story

as it is being created

of the children from

all lands laughing in

joyous play and our

lands ripe with color

of new growth and

our waters flowing in

one direction of the

ocean of life loving us

all!

Our new story is Divine

Love I Am we sing now

together within Presence

of this Love within us all!

Don’t give up; We’re only

just Beginning! Remember?

MaryLinda Landauer

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Thank you Stephen for your writings; I so appreciate your perspective and heart. Yes, may we stay connected and hold hands and look for the gift here, as we continue to put in the work and love and hard conversations and repair over the next four years and beyond. May we live to see a female president and a healing in our country.

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Thank you writing and sharing this.

It is hard to see it as a gift though.

For me it feels like a dirty, heavy lump of coal.

But I am hoping there is a light at the end of this very dark tunnel for us all.

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Looking from across the globe...

I take the news with trepidation...

Thoughts of what will be unleashed in America and how it will ripple through the other continents.

What my Instincts and intuition say, find resonance in your article.

That it has to be this way.

It is darkest before dawn

Trumps reelection is a much stronger catalyst to highlight what we will tolerate no longer.

Leaders like you will help mitigate the vitriol and the turmoil that will be coming

For that, I am grateful

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Thank you. This helps.

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