From Glenn Cole glenn.cole@72andsunny.com

while the leaders of each office have already reached out, and while many of you are finding each other to talk/cry/rage/scheme, and while at least one person has suggested we open offices in Ohio and Florida (good one, gregg), i writing to encourage more of it.

personally, i feel utter sadness and nauseating pain. last night, it became apparent to me that there is a huge blindness in our country and in our world. put simply, we think we know each other but we don't. and now, we are coming out of that blindness.

coming out of blindness is painful. moving from darkness into the light always is. but there's opportunity in newfound awareness. how can we use it to more effectively shape the lives we live? the relationships we need? the world we want? these are the questions i asked myself as i considered how to talk to my kids this morning. or to friends and family terrified by the threat of deportation. or to you.

i can think of no people I'd rather enlist to help explore/interrogate/answer these questions than this community, 72andSunny, which prides itself on an unrelenting optimism and openness to all points of view. there's not much we won't tolerate. but we do draw the line at hate, and we don't indulge fear. as states of being or as tools for influence.

so be brave. and be generous.