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Some people are feeling intense feelings right now as a result of the pandemic. Is anything making you especially sad, angry, or hopeful right now? If so, what's on your mind?

The loss of so many innocent lives to the Pandemic is starting to take a toll. I find myself crying at least once a day over a news segment about a “life well lived” and I’m sad but also angry because it didn’t have to be this way if we had leadership in the White House and/or Senate. It’s an absolute travesty what these people have unleashed on this Country. People have lost this jobs, lost their healthcare, facing eviction, foreclosure, during the holiday season, facing a pandemic. And DC is squabbling over whether to give people $600 or $1200 dollars. Unreal! People need thousands! I truly don’t understand the greed and callousness in DC. And then I saw the video of the woman in Chicago who stood naked on body camera after the police kicked in her door. And it terrified me. As a woman living alone in the suburbs, I couldn’t IMAGINE how I would have reacted to the police kicking in my door, making me stand naked while they ignored me telling them they had the wrong address. And similar stories of families in Chicago where their door has been kicked in multiple times. As a white woman, I live insulated from this trauma. I’ve only ever heard of this happening to one person, a friend of a friend, but the police had the right place that time. Then I saw the outrageous amount of settlement money the city of Chicago has paid due to police wrongdoing. Chicago is a great city and gets so many things right, why is the CPD still such a disaster ?!? Well, that was cathartic. Time to get back to cards and spreading Christmas cheer!