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Jim's avatar

"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Suzanne DeWeese's avatar

This speaks right into my heart. Been following you on Twitter a few years. I'm a middle-aged mom, American living in Canada. I've lived in Canada just long enough- almost 20 years -to have seen that what Canada was, which I just experienced for a couple years, before that country/society died, which it did fully and irrevocably, and has gone. Your essay captures my vague feelings about America too.

I loved the world I grew up in. And I'm so grateful I got some teen years inbtge 90s getting a taste of used bookstores in Portland, thrift stores in Ohio, coffeehouses in Seattle. Grateful for my college era road trips around rural Pennsylvania, New Jersey, hostels before smart phones. Right before the digital age fully transformed everything, amd the material world began wholeheartedly falling apart. I treasure those memories.

Thanks for your insights and for putting the zeitgeist into words.

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