I am not new to this world and I have known who I am for a very long time. I know other people too, but that took a little longer. Some people I know firsthand and others only by their words and deeds. Some I know in full and others only in part. Some I know by who they stand with and what they stand for and others I know by whom and what they stand against. I have even come to know people and to be known by them without ever having met. I want to tell you something and that is where it starts, from the middle of one life already in progress.
I never read the comments section for the kinds of things that one might be reading about on DAILY KOS, but I do put in the time for that kind of reading. Those are the things I care about and I just want to understand what is happening and why a little better than yesterday, because so far it has never been enough to find peace with it.
I said I never read the comments section, but it’s truer to say I almost never read them, and then something out of the ordinary happened. I noticed I was doing it more and when I checked myself I realized it was most often on DAILY KOS. Zero seconds later I am wondering why and it didn’t take long. There is something clearly good about what you all choose as a community to talk about and something good and clear about the way you each choose as individuals to say it. I heard you and now you’ll be hearing from me too, but you only have yourselves to blame.