Letters

Hi, it’s me again. Your good conscience whispering in your ear.

There are some really terrific and soulful letters of appreciation written in this section, but I know many are here for blood ’n’ guts. Who’s getting defamed, lied about, destroyed this week? What is that crazy lady going to write this week? She’s brutal, right? Kind of like Ursula in “The Little Mermaid.” Cruella de Vil, perhaps?

Just this morning at 7:30 a.m., after Easter sunrise service on Ocean Road Beach, I met a local guy who I’ve known so long that we forgot we knew each other. We reintroduced ourselves. “Oh!” he said. “They’re not saying very nice things about you in the papers” — as if surprised that he could be enjoying a morning conversation with that guy, LOL.

I just smiled and said, “Hey, I don’t read ’em, I just write ’em.” And that’s the truth.

Two, of many, lessons I’ve learned over the years are:

1. Hurt people hurt people. Some people find it hard to contain their pain and have to find outlets to release it. Social media and letters to the editor are just their way of releasing their pain and anger. We see it every week.

2. Time will expose us or promote us for who we really are. When I was younger, it bothered me when someone would say untrue things about me, out of fear, jealousy or to try to discredit my views. Today, it comes with the territory of being a community housing advocate. Time is on my side.

Back to my letter.

We are seeing little red devils running around, spouting fear, travesty, the end of life as we know it about Liberty Gardens behind the Full Gospel Church in Southampton. Just flick those little devils off your shoulder. What pests they are.

We know that economically, morally, ethically and legally, creating 25 workforce apartments for our business community and 25 supportive apartments for men and women who served to protect us and our country is exactly what a community of 70,000 will rise to do, amid the most severe housing crisis in modern times.

The fact is, this east-of-the-canal development, which is within walking distance of local area businesses and public transportation, is likely to reduce traffic, because workers will now live closer to their jobs and not be part of the trade parade traffic.

Looking forward, not back.

Michael Daly

East End YIMBY