The times are heavy upon me…and I know you are feeling it too. I’m striving for balance between a stoic stance: “there is always evil in the world”, and heart stopping emotion: “how can they get away with this!”
In The New Yorker, Jill Lepore shares with us how she coped with the first 100 days of Trump 2.0. She kept the classics close at hand. She tapped into the treasures of the human mind and heart to find appropriate quotes.
My oldster friend Naomi handles it this way: “I’ve lived through so much: World War II, civil rights, Vietnam. I’m taking it in stride.” I guess when your book has many chapters, you don’t linger on one page.
There’s no right or wrong here. I like the way Jill summed it up: “There is no emergency, or any day, that does not require poetry.”
Beautifully said!
ReplyDeleteI love that sentence about not lingering on any one page! PK
ReplyDeleteThought provoking words. So well spoken. Written I mean! KK
ReplyDeleteI want to agree with you wholeheartedly; however, the Supreme Court is allowing the Executive branch to have much more power than I believe the Constitution intended. They also vote and do not explain their reasoning for their decisions.--- is it because they have been threatened or bribed? Otherwise, we as a voting public have the right to understand their reasons.
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