If you don’t follow Heather Cox Richardson on Substack or Facebook, or get her daily email, I urge you to do so. At least read today’s letter about democracy (click link).

Read her letter to the end: Joe Biden didn’t pass the torch to Kamala Harris. He passed it to us. It’s no longer about whether you are a Democrat or a Republican: It’s about whether you are seeking to continue this democratic experiment or whether you want to go back to autocratic rule. Me, I’m with the We-Won’t-Go-Back crowd.

I keep reminding myself that Democracy is an ideal, that we’re always on a trajectory to create an ever-more-perfect democracy. We still don’t have a true democracy that offers equal opportunities for jobs and power and voice for everyone. We’re at a tipping point where we can choose to keep trying, or give up. I’m going to throw my hat in with the Keep-Trying folx.

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Gratitude List:
1. Wise and calm voices
2. The ideal of democracy for which we strive
3. A couple more weeks to get my act together before school starts
4. The deer people of Skunk Holler
5. There truly is magic everywhere around us if we know how to look
May we walk in Beauty!