Sean, I honestly believe that what looks like nastiness is really just an accumulated frustration over the difficulty of making words wrap around things far too big for words. Frustrating to try to say, and frustrating to try to hear. On top of harms done in the name of something good.

The day I think that isn't so, well OK the weeklong struggle when I conclude that ain't so-- I'm outta here.

I am not an optimist. I persist against discouragement but I am not optimistic.

And I guess that I try to hear good news in what is said, as much as I try to be a sayer of it myself. We do have that choice, although it can be hard work sometimes. But if I look, I can see good news in every post here. Maybe I'm just tired of translating it into terms others can hear, today.

But-- I am here, and where I am, is also prayer and care.

~Susan