A Space to Connect
It is likely that we are all feeling a collective relief to call Hanover, N.H. our current home. There is a wide enough geographic and emotional distance from the daily impact of the war to allow the Dartmouth environment to feel quite safe and padded. It is this emotional distance, however, that is often the hardest to negotiate. Many of us have already lost loved ones, or have family and friends in parts of the world that are in the midst of serious security threats. And for those of us who do not consider ourselves "directly" connected, we are still undeniably involved -- we read the news each day, we awake to radio-alarms telling of the wartime conditions that the world is steadily slipping into. We are all experiencing fear, confusion and, consequently, the emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs that are part and parcel of such trauma.