For every issue that is dealt with on any of these posts, there is a positive answer for each. Positive change and realizing that we are all in this together is the goal. The first step is education. Republic of Letters was originally created by a series of letters from one founding US father to another, during a time when there was no public forum. This is our version. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931.