"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them." Rumi, Poet It was not an ordinary evening. Last night. It was supposed to be a night of "Follies" - a fun community talent event in Wenatchee. But it was being overshadowed. There was a damper-like feeling in the air, the kind that settles over a small town when something has shifted and no one quite knows what to do with it. John and I were sitting in a little local Mexican restaurant in Cashmere. The room was warm, the
