Archive for Month: September 2022

“We humans are both miracles and catastrophes. We must acknowledge both death and joy, horror and awe. It is an astonishment to be alive, and life calls on us to be astonished; but lifelong astonishment will take iron-willed discipline.  Wake – over and over. Weep for this world and gasp for it. Wake, and pay attention to our mortality, to the precise ways in which beauty cuts through us. Pay attention to the softness of Read More

In her newsletter on September 18, 2022, Heather Cox Richardson traced what happened between 1776 when the Articles of Confederation were written to 1787 when the Constitution was written.  The Articles of Confederation stressed independent thinking – states were sovereign and free to make their own decisions independent of the impact on the other 12 states.  As a result, some states clung to slavery, refused to contribute to the common good, and entered unilateral trade Read More