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Susan Skinner's avatar

I love this post, Meryl. You are amazing. I’m so glad you make time to read and reflect using the excellent brain God gave you. You are doing God’s work. Thank you. Yes, please do post the pages for us to read. 🥰🙏🇺🇸

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Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson's avatar

I just got back from a trip to California where I used to live visiting all my old friends who I love so much.

And we could not talk about politics at all! Or vaccines at all.

They did not want to have a discussion!

And when I just wanted to have a calm paragraph of words to say why do you think this way, can you help explain to me? They did not want to talk about it.

I love them, but there is such a huge mountain of cognitive dissonance of accepted passivity and HUGE fear… there’s a lot of “frozen energy”.

I went down Montana Avenue in Santa Monica and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills because those were the epicenters of creativity and lots of financial sales… and there were an extraordinary number of business closures, multiple business closures, empty stores shockingly in high numbers.

And, the clothes that were inside these places looked like Ann Taylor from 40 years ago.

The stores used to represent such artistic, creativity and unusual vision, and those edges of the Spectrum of the flow of art. It’s all bland now.

I just flew back to AUSTIN last night and I’m marinating on all this and then read your Substack today.

I write in Substack too.

I always follow your Substack and I listen to a lot of your podcasts.

One night I was having dinner at Dr. David Brownstein‘s (another huge fan of yours ) house and I took out one of your podcasts on the history of vaccines and his mother was there and his wife was there and we all listened to. It went to the end and then we went right back to the beginning and listened to it a second time.

Thank you so very much for all that you do, wish we could reach more of the corners of the Earth and have more intelligent exploratory respectful conversations.

Off to the gym to try and process all this! As am wont to do.

Sending you strength and support and shared sisterhood within the cacophony ❣️🎈

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