As I grapple with what has happened over the course of the last 48 hours, I find myself searching for meaning, trying to discover my own feelings. I find comfort in the words of others because I can’t find my own.

Purdue University Professor Roxane Gay writes:

Where do we go from here? That is the question many of us will be trying to answer for the next while. For now, we need to breathe, stand tall and adjust to this new reality as best we can. We need — through writing, through protest, through voting in 2018 and 2020 — to be the checks and balances our government lacks so that we can protect the most defenseless among us, so that we can preserve the more perfect union America has long held as the ideal. We have to fight hard, though I do not yet know what that fight looks like.