Snapshots from a dark day.
One friend responded: If he were that person we would not be in it.
Another: Don't retreat to fantasyland. Hit the phones, hit your checkbook and VOTE. And organize, write, it's still got to be all out.
Another: Fantasies can shine light on the gap between our professed values and those that dominate present life. Not a retreat but a sharpening of focus.
And one more: Those are much nicer than my fantasies.
I am thankful for friends. I think we'll need all these modes of response and engagement to prevail over the unscrupulousness of those who feel so entitled to rule that they think they can bend the rules to get there.
One friend responded: If he were that person we would not be in it.
Another: Don't retreat to fantasyland. Hit the phones, hit your checkbook and VOTE. And organize, write, it's still got to be all out.
Another: Fantasies can shine light on the gap between our professed values and those that dominate present life. Not a retreat but a sharpening of focus.
And one more: Those are much nicer than my fantasies.
I am thankful for friends. I think we'll need all these modes of response and engagement to prevail over the unscrupulousness of those who feel so entitled to rule that they think they can bend the rules to get there.
