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היטלערן ווארפט עס אין היץ און קעלט און ער קאָן אונז קושן נאָר אין תּכת
I was woken shortly after noon by a spam call. It wanted to tell me there was a problem with the warranty of my nonexistent car. When I hung up on the spam, I saw that I had messages waiting from family and friends. They wanted to tell me Biden had won the election.
It does feel like the end of a war. Which means that what's ahead is the hard work of rebuilding—and building on, not merely settling for what we accepted once as the status quo. Too much of our government has still turned out to be three gentlemen's handshakes in a trenchcoat. Let's not do Reconstruction 2.0. Also we still have a plague.
But there is a new tree planted in the sidewalk out front of our apartment and I can think about a future that is not merely the endurance or resistance of destruction.
Just for the change, I think repairing things could be fun.
It does feel like the end of a war. Which means that what's ahead is the hard work of rebuilding—and building on, not merely settling for what we accepted once as the status quo. Too much of our government has still turned out to be three gentlemen's handshakes in a trenchcoat. Let's not do Reconstruction 2.0. Also we still have a plague.
But there is a new tree planted in the sidewalk out front of our apartment and I can think about a future that is not merely the endurance or resistance of destruction.
Just for the change, I think repairing things could be fun.
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Aw!
I didn't have anywhere near as much capacity to rejoice, or as much awareness of how bad the bad stuff could get.
I think that if you had times in your childhood where you were happy without thinking about it, that's really valuable. But there's an incredible depth of relief as well as triumph as well as fragility as well as determination in this joy and it's astonishing.