It's been a rough time, especially for many who had their SNAP benefits and other supports cut off as well as federal workers who faced 43 days of the shutdown upending their lives. Add to this the shock for people I know when they see how much their health insurance is rising, doubling for many people, and there's good reason to despair, freak out, collapse on the couch in exhaustion, or activate fierce hypervigilance. At the same time, I've been seeing unprecedented generos