It's Like Mordor Out There
"It's like Mordor out there and at some point we are going to have to travel through it." Tegan— It's a very dark day here in Vermont, weather-wise, metaphorically, and metaphysically. My daughter, Tegan, is right. It's like the dark clouds of Mordor have spread and we are entering the third volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King . It's left me thinking of how I might better have approached the trolls, orcs, black riders, Balrogs, and assorted "men enslaved by Rings of Power", and the dark lord himself, Sauron. I'm thinking of one particular former sister-in-law who was actively trolling me on social media who perhaps I should have addressed directly instead of "unfriending", that's avoidance versus communication. Then I recall how even when she was a young adult, instead of gifting used clothing to nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity's Restore , she would throw them out saying "
