I have magnetized this week’s [Feb. 11] Independent Thinker to my refrigerator. My late husband used to call Eureka a womb where the lost came and found themselves. For me and my family Eureka has been nothing short of lifesaving.
Reading on. As a retired educator, I can’t help but be proud of our little schools. Long ago I subbed a bit and was deeply impressed by the high expectations of the staff and how deftly students met them. Education matters so much even though our current political leaders reflect none. Yet the Independent spends space teaching us about the candidates vying for power in the upcoming primary elections.
Reading on. Thank you for the timely article about giving grief words. It seems we are in a world of hurt right now and for there to be a place and a time with people who’ve found a way to ease the rage, hurt, fear, and stubbornness of the grief shadowing us is desperately needed.
And reading on I come to The Coffee Table, American Insights, and From the Back Porch. To read something that expresses exactly what you’ve thought or felt in words phrased so poignantly, expertly, eloquently, is both wonderful and terrible. I simply cannot read or watch “news” and no amount of shaming or chiding can get me to sacrifice my sanity to do so, but I can make it through these articles all the way to the end and will thumb on them long after the physical paper has drowned under craft paint.
Thank you Independent for news an old woman is able to read,
Tracie Pruitt Sutcliffe