24 hours after feeling totally devastated and wanting to leave town for good, I can say that I’m feeling very supported. The ladies coming in for class today each came up to me and gave me a hug and said they were so sorry about what had been said about me. The city finally got the people served the papers saying they are barred from the Center for at least 60 days. A mediation team has started hearing both sides (and believe me, there are a lot of people ready to speak to them on my behalf), and I got a chance to express to an impartial person my take on the whole thing. I thought it went well. At least now they can see why we have been unable to resolve this in normal ways – because the other side has no understanding of how things are supposed to work and have unrealistic expectations of what their rights are.
Of course, it is far from over, but at least I feel like I can survive today.
I’m so glad that you are feeling so much support around you! And I also think it’s great that the paper was asked not to print anything this next week. It will be very interesting to see what the impartial report is after this is all done…
By the way, beautiful picture of the rose!
I took a whole bunch of pictures of them. Dad got me them a couple weeks ago. They are actually little tiny roses, but you can’t tell unless you pay attention to the size of the leaves.