Editor,
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, I will become 80 years old. I am a native-born southerner, a cusp Pisces who grew up in a segregated Mississippi in my grandmother’s boardinghouse where a white worker could get ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR A QUARTER.
I have seen brutal segregation and racism, the Women’s Movement, protest against the war in Viet Nam, the Civil Rights struggle, the hippie movement and now I am old, living under budding Fascism.
In The Book of Joy, interviews with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, we are advised to remember to “Reflect on the fact that everyone on the planet has the fundamental desire to be happy and to be free of suffering.”
I want to be happy for the next few years; however, I know that deep happiness comes only when there is justice.
Trella Ann Laughlin