Hard
conversations are coming, perhaps legislation,
around gun control, about hatred, racism,
religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those
conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.
I don't think there should be any subjects that, I know,
religion tends to be kind of the elephant in the room very often, and when you start debating those kinds of things, but I'm always up for a
conversation; which I think is the most important thing to remember, when you're having a discussion — with gigantic ironic quotes
around it, a «
conversation with someone» — is to make it a
conversation, not falling into the trap of thinking the person you're talking to is an idiot, because they might believe something idiotic.