Early yesterday evening as I was watching the election coverage, I saw it on the screen: the solid South, the mass of red states in the Southeast that told me too clearly who our next president is going to be.
The Impossible Dream Renewed
Disappointment and depression are hard to shake; they become a habit, protecting us from hopes that seem doomed.
Hope
A friend’s question prompted me to wonder why I’ve felt and heard so little enthusiasm—in fact, almost no mention among family—of the extraordinary elevation of Vice-President Kamala Harris to the position of Democratic nominee for the presidency.
We’ll Just Pretend It Never Happened
Sooner than we might expect, we will begin to blot out, explain away or even deny the importance of what happened in Washington, D.C.