This past month I, with all of you, have been bombarded with heartbreaking images, cruel comments, savage news all around us, and feelings of inadequacy, outrage, fear, doubt and sadness all intermingled. For awhile, all of these feelings rendered me speechless. I have read and heard so many arguments here and there, pro and con, optimistic and pessimistic, hopeful and damning, and all regarding the very same things. People are either galvanized to action or submerged into ap