Mixed Message
Gosh, I’m finding it challenging to reconcile how our brilliant chief executive is “brokering” peace in the Middle East while inciting violence and war in our cities in the former United States.
One could conclude that we have a really fun multiple personality disorder problem in the White House, which is after all, what we taxpayers deserve, having installed a degenerate lunatic not once but twice as leader of the free world.
This disaster is going to take a long time to deal with, folks. Let’s get at it. It was too late decades ago.
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
Veil Mail
Every October, as the days grow shorter and the air takes on that electric crispness, we hear again that old phrase: “The veil is thin.” Whether one takes that literally or metaphorically, there’s something about Halloween that makes the invisible visible. The past brushes up against the present, and we glimpse the ghost of who we were—or might yet be.
Amid the candy and costumes, Halloween reminds us that mystery still exists in the margins of our overlit lives. Maybe the veil isn’t between the living and the dead at all, but between the ordinary and the extraordinary, waiting for us to peek through.
Cammy Blake
Petaluma
