More moments of ephemeral beauty, snowflakes and blossoms off and on all day.

Lunch was a deconstructed Brie and apricot sandwich, spread with an ancestral silver butter knife, savored bite by bite.

I thought it would be climate chaos that I had to worry over for the rest of my life, trusting that at least I’d have the luxury of a stable government, even if it might be reticent to brake the industrial exploitation of our living planet. I thought it would at least keep moving in right direction rather than expediting planetary systems collapse (acidifying and warming oceans, extreme weather fluctuations and storms, catastrophic drought and floods, species extinctions, and so on). I believed that at least some of my taxpayer dollars would go to protect public lands and conservation science. Also, I expected my tax dollars to support roads, bridges, healthcare, water conservation through wise irrigation projects, retirement and disability benefits I paid into, etc., rather than fattening the self-absorbed lifestyles of the rich and greedy. I’m disappointed.

But maybe New Jersey Senator Cory Booker will help us turn the tide. He really rose to the occasion with his record-breaking filibuster today. We can all join the movement to save democracy: step up and take to the streets this Saturday.