Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept.” Rabbi Joachim Prinz
Kidnapping isn’t protected speech
Shame on you, Buddy Carter, for celebrating DeSantis’ immoral stunt in your weekly newsletter. How dare you support using the most desperate and helpless among us as pawns in a publicity stunt. Shame on you. Not just for celebrating it but by misrepresenting the support the people illegally transported, and then abandoned, were given by… Continue reading Kidnapping isn’t protected speech
It got me…
COVID is wild. I tested positive on Monday. I’ve been hiding in my room since then. I was with Brian and Jen at UGA orientation in close quarters for 4 days and in the car for 8 hours. Jen and I slept in the same bed. I’m the only person in the house who’s tested… Continue reading It got me…
I’m a single issue voter now
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, and Clarence Thomas’s “roadmap” for which freedoms the extremists on the court and their allies will attack next has crystalized something in my mind that has been percolating since Alito’s draft was leaked. I’m a single issue voter now. That issue is bodily autonomy and… Continue reading I’m a single issue voter now
The Gun is Fear
The shootings in Buffalo and Texas have wrecked me – and I can’t keep watching the same old arguments fly by in screenshotted tweets in Instagram stories. It’s all so predictable and isn’t going to change anything. And that makes this grief feel worse. This thought keeps pinging around in my head and it won’t… Continue reading The Gun is Fear
The Next Step in Representation
My youngest is in the process of graduating from high school, and I’ve got all kinds of feelings about it, so I’ve been escaping to comfort TV and rewatching The Great Pottery Throwdown from start to finish. In season four, they “promoted” kiln man Rich to host (he’s delightful) and replaced him as the kiln… Continue reading The Next Step in Representation
A Small Part
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the… Continue reading A Small Part
Say No to Takes
You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you. Marcus Aurelius
To Be Undaunted
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Rabbi Tarfon in 70CE
On Anger
I read this harrowing essay about being a woman on the internet at lunch today and it got me thinking (which is a sure sign of a good essay). It reminded me of this episode of Plain English where he talked to Dan Pink about regret. The host makes a joke about how he’s wasted… Continue reading On Anger