Network Post; Jean-Luc Picard
I shall very much miss Kathryn. She is a fine officer and a fine friend and it has been a privilege of this place that I have had the opportunity to get to know her a bit better in this time when I have had fewer opportunities than I should have liked in my own reality.
While many have complained about the protesters, I had fascinating encounters with more than one of them. I engaged a young woman who was wearing a shirt from the college I have been taking classes from this summer, and as it turns out she is studying anthropology and I was able to ask her many interesting questions, and to offer her a cup of tea nearby where she admitted that it was somewhat nifty that some of us were here, but she couldn't speak to everyone since she didn't know everyone.
But that is universal it seems - we tend to be very uncomfortable with the unknown, and while many of us in this Tower may be quite well known, and we may have the idea that all of our history and personal life is known to the inhabitants of this world, the reality is that for everyone who knows something of our history there are many others who call this reality home that do not know of us our or histories or that we mean them no harm.