Imagine

In Tew’s day’s mailbox: a reminder: Its election day, in case you forgot . . .

Fifty six years ago the Supreme Court of these United States decided that voting was a fundamental right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. And now, those of us who have not been cut out of the right to vote by one or another of the measures states are now imposing on their voters can exercise that right, and determine what our nation will look like, once again. A friend, whose opinion I regard with consistent admiration, remarked recently: “Keep in mind that the color 'red' is associated with blood, communism, Russia, and Putin – while 'blue' is the color of the sky, freedom, happiness and democracy. Vote ,” he said. I will.

There are new organizations, new connections, new voters, new efforts to remake the country better than it has ever been, and the frantic efforts of the Republicans to suppress voting, gerrymander the country, and now to take away our right to choose our leaders indicates we are far more powerful than we believe we are. No matter what happens, . . . that will continue to be true, and I am ever so proud to be one of you. – Heather Cox Richardson

Imagine a stream of water, with two people looking into it. One might have been a Democrat and the other a Republican, but there is nothing in their faces to tell that. All you can see are two human beings looking into deep waters that does not belong to either of them, reflecting back to them the truth that they are not alone. – after Richard Rohr