In the instability, the possibility

It's Thor's day . . . Moderate Northerlies are to bring rain chances tonight and tomorrow into TulseyTown...

Let's be done with the hand wringing. Instead, the ACLU is ready to take action the minute Trump takes the oath of office.

The ACLU is not the only entity building bulwarks against the coming Project 2025 onslaught. Among them: The NRDC, several major environmental defense organizations, and many others – all will be making their plans and moves transparent online in the next several weeks. They'll all need our support. Even if you are on as tight a budget as mine, $1 contributions will help.

It's going to take courage to build and extend our communities of belonging, and nourish our compassionate spirit as we work to repair and heal, deepening our perspective through, hopedfully, greater understanding. While we apparently can't count on the NYTimes anymore, the Washington Post has declared its commitment to keep Trump in sharp focus.

The morning after, Garrison Keillor has declared journalism dead: “There is no point in stating facts anymore. I’m going back to fiction. It’s worked beautifully for the Don and now it’s my turn.”

Impermanence never takes a break. There is never a moment when we’re not in transition—and believe it or not this is good news. The elements that make up this unique moment of your life all came into being at some point; soon those elements will disperse and this experience will be over. – Pema Chödrön

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.” – James Baldwin

In the instability, the possibility; in the chaos, the building blocks of a stronger structure. – Maria Popova in an “emergency” edition of The Marginalian.

Chaos continues to have a mind of its own.

Some things are always hidden behind other things.

There is an order that confounds our idea of order,

a deeper layer of rules, it emerges, can't be quantified,

and is inherently irrational. It's the yin precursor

to yang's insistence on order.