Reason seems to be growing rarer these days. A shame. I’m often tempted into the pit of feelings in my replies to my liberal friend, and I have to stop myself and erase what I’ve written and try again, relieved that I said it once, even if it disappeared before I pressed send. At least I had the momentary pleasure of expressing my feelings without myself or my friend suffering the result of letting feelings loose. Family and friendship are roots that need great protection in these days when the country seems to have become the opposite world to the one in which we were raised, and which we tried, in our turn, to teach.