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Dispatch from the New Paltz Peace Park

Mom walks across the Peace Park bridge with her red umbrella.

Mom walks across the Peace Park bridge with her red umbrella.

Peace feels so far away. On June 17, a gunman killed nine people in Charleston, SC. I can’t imagine sitting in a place of worship and experiencing that violence from a stranger. I can’t fathom the kind of hatred that leads to sitting among people you don’t know, then ending their lives.  It shows privilege and a blindness that I’m so shocked.

Last Sunday, the community remembered them together. Continue reading

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