Category: Current Affairs
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I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded . . .
I used to play with Daddy’s gun when I was a child. Now I cringe whenever i hear about a child shooting or killing another child or their parent or themselves. Freaks me out to realizeI could have been that child. Another unintended shooting – on the set of ‘Rust’ when the cinematographer and director…
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Feeling Left Behind
The arrival in the US of the recent Afghan interpreter evacuees has a profound effect on me both for keeping a promise and thinking about those left behind – also for my own personal experiences with feeling ‘left behind.’
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Describing the Capitol Siege Like a Performance Piece
What Sen. Ron Johnson described about the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol and what i saw on TV as it was happening were very different realities. I felt I was being gaslighted and it reminded me of all the times in my childhood I was told “you’re imagining it,”
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Traumatizing Experiences Can Bring On PTSD
When the Capitol was invaded on January 6, many members of Congress and staff were traumatized by needing to evacuate and hide for hours.They will likely experience PTSD — especially if they thought they were going to die.