A Pure, High Note of Anguish - Barbara Kingsolver

[notwastedonme]

TUCSON -- I want to do something to help right now. But I can't give blood (my hematocrit always runs too low), and I'm too far way to give anybody shelter or a drink of water. I can only give words. My verbal hemoglobin never seems to wane, so words are what I'll offer up in this time that asks of us the best citizenship we've ever mustered. I

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[muunpi]

It's interesting to read this and re-live the feelings I and a lot of other people had at that time and then wonder where did those feelings go?

I remember how civil people behaved the few days or weeks after. Nice even.