I have been stewing and thinking and thinking and stewing about the world this past week. I think like most people my main fear, thought, worry, grievance is in the question that keeps rattling through my head– “what does this ending mean?”
What does this ending mean for my girls who are growing up in a world that has officially legitimized misogyny? What does this ending mean for my friends and loved ones who are all colors of the rainbow who are already being attacked? And my loved ones who are LGTB? And of a plethora of religions and spiritualities?
What does this ending mean? It cannot mean that we all just now live in fear. It cannot mean that we accept hatred as our master. It cannot mean that we accept the given message that the world is not wide enough for all of our children, whoever they are, whatever they look like.
The sun does shine for everyone.
This has been my main message to my girls as they grow, and this has been my message in the book that I am inching my way toward finishing.
I feel like sometimes an ending has to be a beginning. And we have to choose that beginning. In this seemingly horrible ending, we have to choose to begin a long few years together fighting against fear. We have to go out into the garden every day and demonstrate to the world that we have a place here. I am a woman, a mother of girls, and the sun does shine for me. 
Alla Makaroff
You know how much I have admired you and your wonderful expressive natural daughters. They are the future of possibilities if we rid of hate, racism etc. You have been a joy and a confirmation of the magic of childhood. I am 74, a refugee & an immigrant at 5, coming here as the first contingent of “displaced people”. I remember the hate & judgment of McCarthy hate. My heart breaks for the horrors the Syrian are fleeing. This White Hatred is horrifying to me. You and your wonderful daughters provide me hope.
Alla
Joy Ernst
The days after the election were very hard for us. How much harder they must have been for those who don’t easily blend into Trump’s mainstream favored ones.
We are trying to be kinder, gentler,more patient, more supportive as we face others who are afraid, who don’t live in our nation’s “blue ghettoes”.
All of us must work harder for justice and speak out against wrong.
We have lived a long time and have seen changes for righteousness follow bad times.
“The sun will come out tomorrow” with our love, hard work and faith. Mom
racheljesprague@gmail.com
Thank you so much for reading, and for your sincere responses. We all have to fight this in any possible way we are able. Stay strong, goodness is out there, I know it is.
xo Rachel