Do you think we should explain?
It's strange to be writing this knowing that other people are going to be reading what we write. I'm torn between writing what I would normally write to you, a letter just like any other, and writing a letter explaining to other people what we are doing and why? I guess I'll start writing and see where I end up... What are we doing any why? I guess the simple answer is we're writing each other letters because it feels like the thing to do, and we're doing it here because I kept mailing you things that got lost in the mail. The more complicated answer, for me at least, is about silence, and how silence can be a disease that kills. We've seen it this year as with #metoo, with the Kavanaugh hearings, with the countless women coming out of their safe spaces to speak up about what happen to them. I saw it when I quit my job in the service industry and, even after several months recovering off recovering, when I got in the car after my first day at my new job ...