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Julia, thank you for giving voice to our bewilderment while at the same time hanging on to love and hope. 🩷🩷🩷

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I love this, Julia. It was extra special to hear your voice reading your poem too. Thank you for sharing your writing with the world🤍🙏🤍

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Thank you (so much) for leaving your words here for me, dear Moira. I appreciate it (and you) so much. xoxo

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I can see this anthem walking the planet

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Julie, I am blowing kisses and love your way. You’re a badass and I just appreciate you so much. Thank you.

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Thank you Julia for these words that help me feel more connected in this often seemingly disconnected world.

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You are such a light, Melanie. I just really appreciate you. Thank you, Love. xo

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Breathing peace with you dearest Julia. I love your heart, and forever grateful for you and your words xo

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Gaye, thank you. It comforts me so to feel you on the other side of this screen...to know that you are out there walking through this wild life feeling it all with me. I feel your heart so deeply.

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My heart aches with yours. Thank you for your poetry.

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Sending you love, Rebecca. Thankfully, there are so many good, good people in this world. I take so much comfort in this knowing. Thank you for taking the time to read my words. xo

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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Lin 💗🙏💗

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This is a love letter and a prayer to us all. We are all connected, all One. Thank you.

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Sam, thank you. 🙏 Yes, we are all so very connected. Thank you for gracing this space.

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@Robert W Malone MD, MS , thank you so much for sharing my words. I very much appreciate it.

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@Mara Hayes , thank you so much for sharing my words. I am sending you so much love.

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And I am sending ❤️ back. Be well.

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This resonates so much, dear Julia! Thank you for sharing so vulnerably. You inspire me, truly.

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Thank you, beautiful Sundari. I so appreciate this. Love and more love to you, Julia xo

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Thank you so much for these words, for the deep humanity in them, for the gratitude and the grief that intermngle here, for all the questioning and disbelief and sorrow, and yet for the affirmation of what can and must save us. I so resonate with these words.

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Ethel, thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my words and for the thoughtfulness & love in your response. I am deeply touched. I send you a whole ton of love. Let's keep reaching our hands out to each other. xo

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Julia - I don't understand either. Our inner child gets this. There are a lot of really broken people running the world. Thank you for writing and sharing this, I resonate with it completely.

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Karen, I so appreciate you leaving your words here for me. Thank you for taking the time read and reach out. Big love to you.

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Oh Julia, my broken heart resonates and appreciates your prophetic voice! So powerful.

As we each discern ways to use our voice and agency, may we lean into the essentials of kindness, compassion, love. Oh how we don't understand, and yet, and yet, and yet ... . May we continue to notice, name, and nurture all that's true, beautiful, good. May we remember the power of truth telling AND of small ripples of kindness, compassion, love. As your voice says, "Mommy, I don't understand" - I'm reminded of Fred Rogers saying that his Mom always told him, when scary things happen, look for the helpers. There are always helpers. Oh helpers, rise up!

Thank you, dear Julia! You are a light and a helper, no doubt.

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Kay. I sitting here breathing in your words with so much love & appreciation. Thank you. "May we continue to notice, name, and nurture all that's true, beautiful, good. May we remember the power of truth telling AND of small ripples of kindness, compassion, love." Yes. I love this. Let's keep doing this. I'm so thankful for you and each of the amazingly loving, kind & compassionate women in our WYF community. Thank you, dear Kay.

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Not understanding. Not knowing what to do. Not able to imagine the miseries coming next. Not not not…so hard now. Your words here are comfort for me today, dear Julia! Thank you.

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Sigh. Yes, Lizzy. I so hear you. It's all deeply concerning. More the reason to take the very best care of ourselves. We need all of the good, loving, big hearted people to be in top condition. We've got work to do. Thank you for reading and leaving your words here. Sending you a whole ton of love. xo

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I’m with you. None of it makes sense. Much of it is so brutal that the mind stops trying. But so far, the center is holding. The courts take longer than the news cycle. I’m holding hope there, and pulling my head in when I need to recover- focusing on what is good. 🙏

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Julie, yes, we've got to take the very best care of ourselves so we can move from our bigness (not our tiny, afraid selves). I so appreciate you. Sending you tons of love today. xo

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