Seeking some peace of mind in all the talk and speeches of yesterday’s inaugural events, two things rolled into my head. I touched base with this from the lyrics of a recent Kacey Musgraves song, because at least to me, life seems to play out and make sense in the form of a country and western song. This from Kacey Musgraves: “It is what it is, ‘til it ain’t anymore.” I also returned to this from a November interview of former President Obama in Rolling Stone: “There’s no benefit that’s derived from pulling into a fetal position. We go out there, and we work. And we slog through challenges, and over time things get better.”
Each of us has or should have a view of what truth, justice, equality looks like. Each of us has or should have a sense of what “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” looks like. Those still exist no matter if you “won” or “lost.”
Indeed:
“There’s no benefit that’s derived from pulling into a fetal position. We go out there, and we work. And we slog through challenges, and over time things get better.”
“It is what it is, ‘til it ain’t any more.”
It occurs to me... 