November 2024

We experienced beautiful weather over the past few months, though we need rain badly. As I write this, smoke from nearby forest fires hangs in the air. It smells as eerie as things feel on the eve of this fraught election. Since some of James Baldwin’s words recently resonated, and somehow soothed me, I’ll share. Baldwin wrote: 

“Nothing is fixed forever.... the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”

How we handle the inevitable troubles in our world is our witness to our children and grandchildren, so let’s live, vote, and tend to each other for a better, kinder, more humane future for all.

On a more mundane note, I do have some writing news this month which you can find here.

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