My intention is to dive beneath the surface, to go marrow deep into anything I'm curious enough to write about (including my own life) and bring back the simple truths gathered there.

While my intention is still the same, it’s now applied to this very strange and hazardous political world we’re now experiencing. I believe in democracy and the guiding hand of our Constitution … I also believe in peaceful transitions, DEI, being woke, and taxing billionaires.

I also believe we’re in for a long battle to avoid winding up in a dictatorship. Every one of us is going to be called on to speak up and show up in a way we haven’t had to do for several decades.

We have lived in peaceful abundance since World War II. We have worked, although imperfectly, to take care of our veterans, our sick and elderly, and the healthcare of all. Now, we have elected a leader who seems to be delighted to toss all that aside and just make a safe place for billionaires. It’s up to us to minimize the damage he wants to create … and, make sure his tenure is as brief as possible.

He jokes that we won’t need more elections. That is the ambition of a king … and we tried that for awhile … it didn’t work for us then; it won’t work for us now.

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