Beth Macy

But her question, I think about it all the time.

How do we love beyond what we can't understand?

I hope I can.

During Trump's first administration, my brother, who was always really supportive of my kids and would come to all their plays and concerts and stuff, unfriended me on Facebook because of, quote, all the liberal crap I post.

And during this homegoing project, we became close again and to the point of at one point saying,

Tim leans over to me.

He's visiting us here in Virginia, and he's going to go to a Palmyra show.

That's my youngest kid's band.

My youngest kid is non-binary, who goes by the name Sasha.

And he said, well...

Tell me about this.

Does he still date girls?

And because I had done kind of the work on how to respond and have these conversations, I took a breath and I said, well, they are dating a young woman now.

Yes.

And I sometimes mess up the pronouns, too, which is true.

I do still sometimes mess up the pronouns.

And but he was so kind about it and just curious that I went there with him.

And I think we like he showed me grace.

I showed him grace back.

And that's where we need to get back to in this country.