sharon levy

Dear Eve,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts but more so your feelings. I think many of us have been on a rollercoaster of emotions. I will keep this brief for now because this is the first day really back in the office, except for checking on everyone and making sure essentials were taken care of, and I need to attend to some things and am just beginning to be able to. I also felt, at first, so irrelevent and tried to give blood and didn't think my work had any real meaning after all but am beginning to slowly feel that not only our work but our belief in good and beauty etc etc are so badly needed to counteract the unfathomable hatred out there that we are just now staring in the face. Things have changed irrevocably and though it's hard to fully comprehend, for probably the first time in my life I feel the divide between good and evil and the need to take sides and especially the need to stand together. I'm not a particularly "community" minded person normally, I do my thing my way, but after dealing with family members who are for the time being stuck in NY after a family wedding but who are thankfully safe and well (though shaken), I felt a need to go to Union Square, my neighborhood gathering place, to connect with my neighborhood and have been back several times since and brought my sister, brother in law and 9 year old neice, unable to get back to Melbourne, to share it with me. Am feeling so proud to be a NYer, the city I have chosen to live in, for responding so superbly, in every way, and actually showing that no matter how aggresively we pursue our business day to day, we know what really matters and what it takes when up against it. I must move on now to some other business but am glad to hear you are safe and hope we can all figure some way to fight this because I truly believe a fight is what it will take.

All my love,
Sharon [Levy]


	Dear Eve, Thanks for sharing your thoughts but more so your feelings. I think many of us have been on a rollercoaster of emotions. I will keep this brief for now because this is the first day really back in the office, except for checking on everyone and making sure essentials were taken care of, and I need to attend to some things and am just beginning to be able to. I also felt, at first, so irrelevent and tried to give blood and didn't think my work had any real meaning after all but am beginning to slowly feel that not only our work but our belief in good and beauty etc etc are so badly needed to counteract the unfathomable hatred out there that we are just now staring in the face. Things have changed irrevocably and though it's hard to fully comprehend, for probably the first time in my life I feel the divide between good and evil and the need to take sides and especially the need to stand together. I'm not a particularly "community" minded person normally, I do my thing my way, but after dealing with family members who are for the time being stuck in NY after a family wedding but who are thankfully safe and well (though shaken), I felt a need to go to Union Square, my neighborhood gathering place, to connect with my neighborhood and have been back several times since and brought my sister, brother in law and 9 year old neice, unable to get back to Melbourne, to share it with me. Am feeling so proud to be a NYer, the city I have chosen to live in, for responding so superbly, in every way, and actually showing that no matter how aggresively we pursue our business day to day, we know what really matters and what it takes when up against it. I must move on now to some other business but am glad to hear you are safe and hope we can all figure some way to fight this because I truly believe a fight is what it will take. All my love, Sharon [Levy]
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