Thank you to Patti Saunders, Alaska pal.
“I love your rants, Simone. They so often mirror my own thoughts and feelings, but more articulately than I can usually manage.
“I want to offer one bit of hope: it seems to me that one of the things we may be seeing is a whole lot of nominally progressive people who have sat back and taken our progress for granted, as well as the idea that the progress would continue unabated into the future (albeit by fits and starts), have woken up out of their complacent stupor and realized that everything is at stake right now, including our souls if we just go quietly.
“I’m thrilled to see so many people in the streets and on the phone to their legislators (30,000 calls to AK Senator Murkowski about DeVos!!!). I’m thrilled to see so many people donating to good causes ($19 million to the ACLU in THREE DAYS to litigate the immigration/refugee order!). There’s a sea change in the air; I can smell it.
“We just have to keep it going, bank the coals so the flame stays lit for the long haul.”
YES. We just have to keep it going, bank the coals sos the flame stays lit for the long haul. Because it’s going to be a very very long haul. Full of ugliness and fear and anger and sadness and so much hurt to so many people.
Thank you, Patti.
