From: Beverly Slapin <oyate>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:13:17 +0000

Maia wrote: First, thank you, Maia, for these words and your consistent and strong support. There is little I can add. Thank you, Eliza, for facilitating a complicated, and for some of us, painful, discussion with balance and fair-mindedness. Thank you, Debbie, Jean, LaVera, Uma, for your courage and determination. As my parting words (for now), Doris has given me permission to give you all a poem that she sent to me:

Grandmother, There is not blame. There is seeing And understanding And healing. Grandmother, There are tall trees Against a red sky And crow flying. There are all these things. So let it be. So let it be.

To this, let me add: We cannot promise to keep our children safe, and we can never give up trying.

Beverly
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