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Rebecca Solnit gives me strength...
"The world is coming apart, I said to my beloved a moment ago. No, wait a moment, the world is coming together. When someone moves beyond a common consensus about what is civil, decent, legal, humane, others come together to reassert those definitions and boundaries. That's what's happening, from airports across the country to Angela Merkel to the media. This is scary. It's also interesting. And beautiful all around the grand periphery, as well as obscenely ugly at the center."
Follow her on Facebook, read her books, she is amazing.
