A Letter From Earl

It’s funny being someone who communicates for a living and suddenly being at a loss for words. I’m not going to get into the what of what’s happening, because I’m not an authority.

There have been moments that completely shifted my understanding of the world - Trump’s election was one, George Floyd’s murder was another. My brain shifted, my perspective widened. I’m not saying there isn’t a benefit to changing your point of view, but I’m also definitively not saying there’s a silver lining here. There is no silver lining, no bright spot to the slaughter of hundreds of people, and more to come. There is no optimistic takeaway from war. I think all of us are grappling with the horror of what’s happening, and grappling with the fact that the world contains this. Brutality on a level that’s unimaginable. Something feels irreparably broken now.

via Mattie Kahn

I’m terrified for what’s happening, I’m terrified for the wave of Antisemitism and Islamophobia that’s cresting here, too. Something …