What Now?

Such sadness (yet all truth, I know) following yesterday's interaction - I hesitate to call it a conversation in that it was more a wandering through emotional minefields with the hopes of inducing the least possible carnage...

I feel like we are living in the middle of the quote by Anaïs Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

Things are pretty painful.

Today's Election Advent Calendar Message:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

(If I stay, am I giving up my own essential liberty to purchase safety?? Will everything now seem like a prophetic sign?)