I was going to try and excerpt the best parts, but, really, if you're an American, or if you're someone who loves justice, or if you're human, you should just go read the whole thing.
All my life, they've been shooting the heroes down. All my life, easy access to guns has taken down those who tried to lead us forward. I think it's time to get to the root of the problem. Let's get a "well-regulated" militia under regulation.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."