Inspire Act Serve
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I see myself becoming part of the crowd rushing to the pandemic’s exit. Enough already. I’ve had two shots — thank you, science — and I’m ready to break out of isolation. I have things to do, places to go and people I’ve missed. Here I come!
Well, almost. There’s a still, small voice within me offering a whispered warning: “Easy does it, Mary — you might want to think before you act….”
didn’t want to watch the news as the congressional Republicans booed Liz Cheney out of leadership. It was too troubling. Her offense was that she refused to stop telling the truth. God bless her.
That truth-telling has become grounds for removal from a Party’s leadership is itself shocking. Even more shocking, to me, is that no one doing the booing and subsequent voting seemed to suffer even a slight pang of shame. There was no evident embarrassment. It was just “good riddance” to a problem, where truth was the basic problem…
President Biden has given his first address to a Joint Session of Congress. It was delivered to a smaller-than-usual, socially distanced assembly.
For me, what distinguished the President’s speech most wasn’t its content — although I found that encouraging — but its volume. As veteran journalist Jeff Greenfield wrote (Politico), “His speech was delivered almost as conversation, rather than a series of declamations. He kept his voice, for long stretches, at times a near-whisper of empathy or concern — a tone that would have been completely unworkable in a full room.”…