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hamsterjill

(16,538 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:13 AM Tuesday

A sadness thread. Appropriate for right now. Drop all of your sadness here and let's hug one another today.

I don't know about everyone else, but the news of Robert Redford just gut punched me this morning. Just one more thing to add to a world in turmoil and despair.

All the Charlie Kirk stuff, the Black student found hanged, Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, America!!! So much more that we could all list here. So much loss. So much sadness. So much of a threat of what's to come.

Just for today, please, drop your sadness in this thread. Lighten your load a small bit by letting it out. Let it go. Just for a moment, at least. Take a breath. We all need it.

Ginormous hugs to everyone here. You remind me that there are people like me left in the world, and that I'm not alone. We are indeed good people. I want us all to know that we are not alone in this. Regardless of how bad it is or how bad it gets, we are not alone.

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A sadness thread. Appropriate for right now. Drop all of your sadness here and let's hug one another today. (Original Post) hamsterjill Tuesday OP
Yes. It hit me the same way... hlthe2b Tuesday #1
This Friday, the better half and I are both taking off early Torchlight Tuesday #2
That sounds divine! n/t demmiblue Tuesday #4
... Aristus Tuesday #3
🤗☮️🫶 godsentme Tuesday #5
... SheltieLover Tuesday #6
First 🥲 mwmisses4289 Tuesday #7
I just want all of the madness to stop. Initech Tuesday #8
Me, too. hamsterjill Tuesday #9
The shootings, the hate, the lies, the conspiracy bullshit, the misinformation. Initech Tuesday #11
... milestogo Tuesday #10

hlthe2b

(111,298 posts)
1. Yes. It hit me the same way...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:21 AM
Tuesday

I look every morning for some bit of good news--locally, domestically, even worldwide. And after the lynching (I suspect) death of that poor black man, the horrific lies perpetuated by Vance and others to stir violence against the Left and Dems in general, all the economic bad news, then there was the news of Robert Redford.

and for me at least, I like to think Butch and Sundance are back together again.

Torchlight

(5,692 posts)
2. This Friday, the better half and I are both taking off early
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:28 AM
Tuesday

and heading into some national parkland for a quiet weekend of nothing electric or virtual. No news, no loud, no problems. I figure after this past year, we've earned ourselves a weekend of ignorant bliss with a nice view.

Initech

(106,306 posts)
11. The shootings, the hate, the lies, the conspiracy bullshit, the misinformation.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 01:30 PM
Tuesday

Just all of it.

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