[Lawrence Dietz]

I have listened to Dvorak’s 9th “From the New World” Symphony, letting the Second Movement soothe me, and I have been particularly interactive with others in a positive way — cooking lunch for the woman who hadn’t eaten in 24 hours after falling while visiting a cemetary, and making sure her Bible was in reach. This is as fraught an election as I have ever seen, and my first politial memory is election night, 1944 (I was small, but paying attention). May today’s winners not seek revenge on or feel disdain toward the losers, and may the losers accept the judgment of voters with humility, not anger. The Bible verses you’ve chosen, Jim, are a salve on our self-inflicted, short-sighted, misery.