Today I went to two vigils, one in North Hampton and then on to Belchertown. Good-sized crowds for small New England towns--around a hundred at the first one, probably about three hundred in Belchertown. But here in the "happy valley," we are preaching to the crowd, with one car out of two beeping with approval as they passed.
Once, a woman near me said in surprise and consternation, "That man just gave us a thumbs down!" Are we in just a bit of a bubble?
I'm feeling very discouraged every time I think about the world outside our bubble.
We are in the middle of a heat wave--it feels hotter here than it did in the southwest. Comparable temperatures and a lot of humidity. Even with the air conditioning on, the dogs enjoy the cool stone floor of the entry way.
