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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
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Quote #1228 - #TerribleTimes
09 Mar, 2026
TERRIBLE TIMES
"We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things."
Annie Proulx
THE SHIPPING NEWS
"It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places."
Karen Marie Moning
DREAMFEVER
"Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes."
Tom Robbins
STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER
Even in terrible times,
we must live,
find joy and beauty and laughter
where we can,
grow things,
grow ourselves and each other,
appreciate the beauty in
watching things grow.
These are terrible times
but people have lived through worse--
ages and eons, hundreds of years, worse--
worse laws, worse petty tyrants,
worse restrictions, reservations, incarcerations,
slavery.
And still we find a way to live,
to breathe,
to drink water, to make food and relish it,
to appreciate the changing seasons.
Still we find ways both to push back
and to push up through the cracks,
speak out, sing out,
love, laugh,
do what we can
to make a life.
I've been thinking about that a lot this week--
if he succeeds,
if we become a true and complete dictatorship,
if worse comes to and becomes worst--
what then?--
and I know we will still find any way possible
to live, to make our lives
have meaning and value,
until we take our last breath.
Shellen Lubin
March 9, 2026
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