Diary 79

Friday June 5th

The “president” today said that unemployment was down and that this was a great day for George Floyd. I have no clue what that could possibly mean, as Floyd is, as even the ‘president’ knows, dead.

This is the eleventh straight day of protests.

The question I ask each day is: how can we heal this situation? It may feel impossible with one side so entrenched in not listening to what’s happening, but we have reason to believe that gradually, very gradually, Goliath is realizing he’s out-numbered.

For what we are seeing, ugly and alarming as it is, in fact is healing. We are all seeing that peaceful protests must be allowed – that’s why we’re outraged when things turn brutal. Like a body that burns with fever as it deals with the pathogen, it’s pretty scary.  But I believe we’re witnessing one of the stages of healing.