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Look for the helpers

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Sound advice for children (and, honestly, myself) when trying to process tragedy:

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

—Fred Rogers.

It’s been a scary week with domestic terrorism in the nation’s capitol (incited by the president, no less), and it would be easy to lose hope. But then I think of Stacey Abrams, her organization Fair Fight, and all the volunteers whose tireless fight over many years to prevent voter suppression just allowed democracy to prevail in Georgia.

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