Dear Carly I thought you had given up, yet here you are again. Although I could comment on lots of things in your letter I want to focus on the last sentence. You seem to still hold out hope for a meeting, although only after certain issues are resolved. These hopes have been expressed so often, for so long, in different ways, both publicly and privately, by people on many sides (notice I did not say both sides!) that I think you are waiting in vain. Is that cynicism? Maybe. Or is it motivated by a deeper hope. Personally I am waiting for (or am I extending) an invitation as expressed by the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic Jelaluddin Rumi.
"Out there beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
In the meantime I send my love.
Margaret