No need to ma'am me in this company, if you'd rather not. (And I'm sorry, got called away before I could properly finish a thought.)
I keep thinking back to a conversation I had with Alice a few weeks ago. About how much we all can't see and can't say, and how that keeps us apart from those who might in fact share our values and our desires.
I've worried, the past few years, that the isolation, the propaganda, the repeated insistence on the supposed virtues of the Protectorate will make it impossible for us to truly win out in the end. That we'll have a generation who can never trust, never reach out, never share - just hide and isolate and manipulate to their own ends.
But you give me hope, you and the friends who helped you. Hope that there's far more under the surface than most of us ever see, for, and that that resilience, that sense of self, can bear abundant fruit even in the darkest times.
I won't dwell. But I'm delighted to see the intelligence I knew off from Poppy, and the hard work I'd observed for myself (the few times you could help me), are twined with many other virtues. And I'm looking forward to what you do now you've got a far more proper place to grow.
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I keep thinking back to a conversation I had with Alice a few weeks ago. About how much we all can't see and can't say, and how that keeps us apart from those who might in fact share our values and our desires.
I've worried, the past few years, that the isolation, the propaganda, the repeated insistence on the supposed virtues of the Protectorate will make it impossible for us to truly win out in the end. That we'll have a generation who can never trust, never reach out, never share - just hide and isolate and manipulate to their own ends.
But you give me hope, you and the friends who helped you. Hope that there's far more under the surface than most of us ever see, for, and that that resilience, that sense of self, can bear abundant fruit even in the darkest times.
I won't dwell. But I'm delighted to see the intelligence I knew off from Poppy, and the hard work I'd observed for myself (the few times you could help me), are twined with many other virtues. And I'm looking forward to what you do now you've got a far more proper place to grow.