Eve Brown-Waite: Look for the helpers

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Published: 01-22-2025 7:55 AM |
Many of us in western Massachusetts are concerned about what might await us, and those we care about, after Inauguration Day. There is plenty of reason to believe that a firehose of damaging policies will be let loose from day one as the new administration activates their promised agenda. Some of us may be asking, what can we do? How can we be most useful? Does anything we do matter at all?
As a child, I often wondered how what became known as the Holocaust could take root in modern, educated, cultured Europe in the 1930s. Over the past eight years, I’ve come to understand how something like that could come to be. But even in the darkness of that time and place, there were righteous souls; good people who, in small and large ways, tried to alleviate suffering where and when they could.
What gives me comfort as we head into whatever is coming are the righteous souls who are here now. There are millions of us, good people, who will soon find our opportunities — large and small — to be lights in what may become a very dark time.
Our old friend, Mr. Rogers taught us that when bad things happen, good people step up to help. “Look for the helpers,” he said. “There will always be helpers.”
So my mantra and my prayer for whatever lies ahead is Please Dear Universe, allow me to be a light in a dark time. Allow me to be a helper. Let me not be a good person who stands by and does nothing. And I know that I will be joined in this army of helpers by many of my neighbors. I look forward to being part of this Light Brigade with you.
Eve Brown-Waite
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