It’s All Too Much, And We Still Have To Care

"Sure, tune out that which makes you feel hopeless. But hold onto what motivates you to act. Find all the humans you can find who agree with you and make calls and register voters. Because if things continue on this way for people without funds, or with brown skin, or for women and children and the sick, there will come a time when we all have fewer choices. This is not yet that time. Get out of the snow bank, find the St. Bernard with the tiny flask of hope, and stomp around like democracy depends on it."

Yes, it is easy to be discouraged. Perhaps just thinking about how much worse it could get if we all clam up and do nothing to fight it will be a motivating factor.

What’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away