The intention of this White House is to traumatize and each day they do a great job of that.  The onslaught continues but this morning I’m struck by the words of Nicholas Kristoff.  The Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him a liar because he said children are dying because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.  This is true.  It is not a lie.

Kristoff ends his column with this: To deny the reality of dying children not only insults the memory of children starving to death in Sudan and Yemen and Afghanistan; it also insults the intelligence of Americans.

June 14th is an essential day of protest.  May it be enough to turn the tide of cruelty and inhumanity.  

Last night I sat outside and watched dusk turn to night.  The moon was a crescent in the West, and one by one, the stars emerged.  The earth is so tiny, and yet, here we are with 8.2 billion people each one with a purpose, both personal and global.  

Yesterday I was at the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District.  It’s a beautiful place to walk quietly and filter water, life, transition, and peace.  

This morning I woke from what I would call a nightmare.  It was a response to what’s happening daily, an onslaught of lies and corruption, a nightmare.  In the “dream”, I was trying to understand the political situation, and I came to a place where I had to admit it was too much.  I sat down at a table under an umbrella, and then, I woke up.  I know the plan is to overwhelm us, and now awake, I feel an inner support to yes, acknowledge the horror, and also, mobilize strength.  This can’t go on.  

It’s Memorial Day weekend.  We honor and remember those who fought for democracy, and those who died.  I think of my grandfather in WWI, who fought to end all wars, my father in WWII, my uncle, my husband’s father.  We honor them this weekend as we recognize a different kind of attack, an attack on what we know is right.

Maureen Dowd writes today about Trump pushing crypto and Bitcoin for himself.

“I really do it because I think it’s the right thing to do,” he said.

In Trump’s moral universe, the right thing to do is always the thing that makes him richer.

This weekend offers a time to reflect.  In that, we mobilize even more to stop him and the corruption he represents and manifests.  It’s enough.  

Bruce Springsteen says it perfectly.

The wonderful poet Stanley Kunitz wrote: You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin …

The same is true of us.  We must be careful not to deprive our innate nature of its wild origin.  

We’re coming together to bring forth our wildness as we reclaim our rights and fight for what nourishes: parks, libraries, education, art, roads, health care, connection, and a network of support. 

Robin Wall Kimmerer: 

If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the “Sun” of a human gift economy, the source that constantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.