Reply #12: Wow THANK YOU for posting this... I was wondering about this earlier

[sohndrsmith]

and how or what (if anything) might end up in the news. I was mostly worried about people getting frostbite, though, as far as police incidents were concerned. I like to think that there was no mischief at any time or any location throughout this whole event, and I've yet to hear something to the contrary...

Thanks for posting - I really was curious and hoped for this result.

Even if things did happen but were so minor or infrequent that they just didn't get reported, I'm still not surprised at the lack of hostility or crime or conflict, because people really seemed just so purely joyous and connected. We were much more of a team today... all of us. At least that's the sense I got.

Even if some (or most) of this sense of good will fades over time, we made collective, positive progress because of this day, I think. We gained something truly valuable as a whole and individually, and that's just so... wonderful.

Reality will sober us up some, though, as it always does, but we will never lose the gift of this day that is now in our hearts - even if we forget from time to time, we won't lose it - unless we do so deliberately, but that would just be dumb. I don't think there will be many takers for that.

What a good, healing day.