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Saturday, September 11, 2004

Crimes Mistaken for Commemorations

The grief and the grievances could not be more real, and they abide as the crimes have been compounded with new crimes and more crimes without end. Rage and revenge are the smallest, meanest, laziest, most thoughtless, most hurtful, most dangerous possible ways to respond to losses and to fear. We all know there are other ways. We all know real leaders are the ones who find the other ways, and help us find our way to them. George Bush has made a dangerous world more dangerous, a suffering world less just, a grieving world less comforted, a promising world harder to imagine. In November, we have to open the door to the wind again, and let the wide world rush in. It feels like years and years since I’ve taken a deep sweet breath! I know that hope is more difficult than fear is, more difficult than anger is, but to choke in rage and live in fear isn’t living at all. We’re strong enough to grieve 9/11, we’re strong enough to look around and build again and move on – but I just can’t bear grieving the loss of America anymore to a bunch of brainless bullies out to make a cheap buck. On November 3 I’ll find the strength to start forgiving again.

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