100 Seconds 1/13/21
I haven’t posted for a while, as I’ve been recovering from shoulder surgery and pondering last week’s events, the images of a violent mob storming the citadel of our democracy, emboldened and incited by a president who broke his oath to protect it. I wrote this four years ago, still so haunting today: “With an authoritarian narcissist in the White House, spinning a web of lies and hate, being silent, laying low, or appeasing him could well undo us.”
Here is my teacup for a raging storm when everything seems so rough and blustery, from which I take small sips of commitment, quietness, and most of all, hopefulness.