I read HCR…

I read Heather Cox Richardson, journalist and commentator on current events every morning or evening when I am slower and the world is slower and I can digest what is happening.  And I am wonder what I am going to do.  What I am not going to do is be anxious and worried and upset which could just make me eat too much and the wrong thing or have a drink or go to bed early.

What I am going to do is listen to young people and what they are up to and what they are concerned about.

Coleman is going to bring me a CD of his mother singing, two actually, one of popular music and one of religious music, both making a joyful noise.  Coleman is Davis’s new friend he met in Scrooge and then he came over  postproduction to sit in the hot tub and have a charcuterie board with Tristan Christmas present and singer Billy from Love Actually at the intermission and Isabel Scrooge’s almost wife that he didn’t have enough time for as he was working and making money.  Isabel is Bianca.  And Karina who worked backstage on the production and Coleman who was the soup vendor and singer who lead the ensemble on “Thank You Very Much” to Scrooge for dying.  We just saw Coleman in “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Belmont Abbey theater, a comedy by Oscar Wilde written in 1900 and still funny.

I am going to listen and fix chacuterie boards and respond to Julia’s lament on Instagram about being sad and crying on the sofa with her friend and having too much caffeine.

And go to Macon to visit Phillip and his Julia.  And follow Alexander and what he is posting on TikTok

And work on the quilt for Stephanie slowing but surely.

There was a time when I marched for Civil Rights, 6 months pregnant on Trade Street in 1969.

I haven’t even written a letter to a congressperson.

Cathy Tisdale did on email and then printed it out and mailed it hard copy and also called.  She is selecting one issue at a time and reaching out to make her voice heard.

Some say this is the end of our democracy and we will be an autocracy like Russia and Turkey and I don’t know where but where the wealthy are the rulers and the common people have no or little rights.  When I was growing up this kind of civilization was in history books, ancient times and here we are fighting for our country against the president and Congress. 

I get requests for money to help flip 3 seats. 

“I am begging”

 “I can’t believe this” 

“Barack just broke his silence” 

“Rachel Maddow warning”

Is it so that if we and if I had just done a little more last year, he would not have been elected for this second term?

Read Heather Cox Richardson

Hold Cat

Find a bird poem

Go to the mountains to teach writing

Have organizations fulfill their dreams, provide employment and  a  great place to work

Thank the poets

And okay, write a letter to thank Klobuchar and Schiff and finally, even McConnell.

And don’t forget watching Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live playing James Brown in a hot tub.

And the Einstein documentary on Prime Video. 

Grandchildren, this is what I am saying so far about these times January, 2025 when Trump was inaugurated.

Nancy Dorrier