YES! YES! YES!

Rip up that deportation edict!

Unpack that duffel!

We’re staying here!

I don’t believe I was alone when I felt a stunned chill 10 days ago. I don’t fully understand how the site of an arrangement dots on a cathode-ray tube could produce such a physiological reaction, but I know it was real.

Right now I’m feeling another one that is just as genuine but of the opposite nature. I am equally at a loss to express the true joy and relief that is flowing through me. I’m leaving it for and requesting that our wordsmiths fabricate a suitable expression of our gratitude.

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