Is it freedom or love that you pray for in your guttural accent? Too late—long gone

[sovay]

spatch told me the news about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.

Tonight is my family's annual Halloween party, the fiftieth since my mother carved her first pumpkins on the floor of her grad-school apartment in New York City. I don't know who'll make it through the nor'easter which is currently turning our street into a river, but we'll be there.

I wish every observance of time these days did not feel like still here, damn it, still here, still here, still here.

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[cmcmck]

I've just posted about that myself.

And as you say- still here!

Hugs

[selkie]

*big helpless useless hugs*

Tired of the continual knock-down-have-to-get-up-and-fight cycle for all of us. Already dreading going to work on Monday. Got a weird hateful email at the work account that before this morning, I would have dismissed as incoherent. Now I have to pass it along. I'm so tired and I hate it so much.

Let's move to Liechtenstein. You never hear about Liechtenstein in the goddamn news. There can be a Halloween party in Liechtenstein.

[moon_custafer]

*angrily hugs all my friends*

[nineweaving]

The *hugs* will be literal and soon.

Your Hallowe'en will be a thanksgiving for sanity.

Nine

[gwynnega]

Yes, still here, still here.

[julian]

Yes. Very much so.

Have a good party, though, and happy 50th to it.

[julian]

Also, in case it's relevant: Vigil in the Public Garden at 2pm tomorrow, at the Bandstand. Co-sponsored by Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. (And the ADL and the Synagogue Council of MA.)

[thawrecka]

Huge internet hugs for you.

[redbird]

Yeah.

[ashlyme]

*gentle hugs if okay* Always here. We fight on Cable Street until we've made them into dust or less. Love. <3

[gilana]

As the tradition goes -- they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat.

[selidor]

I came out of a cave and back to civilisation (Knoxville) only to hear this. Thoughts to you and yours. This is heartbreaking.

[rosefox]

I inaugurated an afternoon Torah study group today, because what was I going to do, stay home?

And we'll be there next week and the week after and the week after that, with a sign in the window like a menorah.

[thisbluespirit]

Such an awful thing. I'm so sorry. <3

I'd say I hope the party at least goes well, but I see from the next post that it did, for which I'm glad!

[kore]

I am feeling really keystone-knocked-out-of-arch about this myself. (When I heard Trump was going on with one of his Nuremburg-esque rallies I was disgusted he wasn't visiting the survivors, and then thought: "But what survivor of this would want Trump hanging over them like a ghoul?")

I am very grateful you are still here.

[asakiyume]

Thank you for still being here, shining, breathing, sowing and reaping poetry.

No words for the massacre... it's too easy, just too easy, to murder masses of people these days.