Relief

As I listen to the day of reporting about the death of Osama bin Laden, I feel relief, a release of an almost invisible layer of fear I barely knew I felt. It was good to admit it and bid it goodbye. Not that anyone should be letting their guard down in the wake of this, but it seems like a closing of an ugly book, a page turned in a bigger history, an unusual opportunity to begin again. How to fix the wounds and continue this migration from fear to hope, that is the natural state of human beings.