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"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

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl, famous psychiatrist and survivor of the Holocaust All of you in the Wenatchee Valley know what has been going on. In this blog, I'd like to offer a reflection that particularly leans on some wisdom I gleaned recently from one of my granddaughter's college entrance essays. Let's get started. (And thank you to those who have sent photos and videos). Here in our little berg