Fear

I feel fractured. My friends from all over the world have asked how I am. They have asked how America is. I say fractured.
The feeling of safety is gone. Even in my own home state of Maine there are children being called horrific names and being yelled at to "go back to Africa" even though their ancestry here is over 100 years.
There was a group of my friends being yelled at by young men with a southern flag sticker on their car, calling them dykes and fags and other names we hoped were gone.
There are marches. By the way they were threatened on the other side too. But they forgot that because they won. Ask them. They are now superior. They are smug and still......................they are
Angry
We all are angry.
We are divided and sad and fractured into a million pieces.
I am sad
They hate black people
They hate muslim people
They hate Mexican people
They hate Jewish people.
They hate Catholic people
Really you say no?
Oh yeah that is next. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it ( ok that may not be the exact quote but, You understand it)
I have no other choice except to stand up. As a 59 year old white woman in the United States, ( I can't even say the name any more) fear should not be part of my reality. As they strip my rights away bit by bit.....I am afraid. but I will not cower.
Tomorrow I buy safety pins.

Tonight down under and to the north.......please pray for us.