Dear Reader;Love Letters is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber."Look you to history Look you to every memory of the waves of change and what you will find is when the forces of the waters rise all manner of life once hidden beneath is cast upon the shores never one never two but many So it is with human turbulence We may choose to walk one way or we may choose to walk another but never will we walk alone no matter how much we think we prefer it no matter how much we fear being exposed Some will find themselves falling in with the fighters to toss and turn and rage in response to all they have not wanted to see Some will fall with the doers the fixers and the savers busying themselves with tasks so as not to feel Some will fall with the hopeless and the afraid joining together in distractions of false revelry or consumption Some will try very hard not to see the rising waves at all to cling to the old as if there were something to hold onto even as they are washed into the sea And some will feel all of it the fear the desire to save to fight back but they will choose another way which is to rise.."