I stopped blogging after my post on May 27 th , two days after George Floyd’s death. I just could not find a way to share my voice, to continue to keep a window open into my life here in Patten, Maine. - The country has erupted in outrage at the death of George Floyd, and the floodgates from systemic, long term racial inequality have burst open - and it might just be that white allies will at last stand up and be meaningful participants in change. Eight minutes forty-six seconds that touched the world, sparked that latent, unattended place inside us that wanted to pretend that color of your skin does not matter. - 170,000 dead, 5.4 million cases of covid-19. 100,000 dead in the US from corona-virus. - The administration is closing down the census early, there is rampant cries about what is happening to the data, who is getting counted, where is under-counting occurring is a very real question. - Th...