[Previous entry: "Another One"] [Next entry: "I"]

12/01/2004: "Hush"

The silence has been eerie. It was more than a week ago that my colleague, my friend, announced her intention to resign at the end of the month. Those of us who are close to her have spoken about it almost every day, among ourselves; but no one else has brought the subject up to me. Or to the others. The birthday party yesterday was even more of a sham than usual under the shadow of this situation. We need openness, decisiveness, courage: we are getting secrecy, passivity, cowardice. The leadership is saying, in more than one way: Let them eat cake.