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Justice Crashing Down

So simple, so delicious: dinner was the last heel of bread cut up and French-toasted, served with yogurt, maple syrup, and the last apricot jam left in the cooking pot after today’s final batch.

I’m grateful tonight as the dominoes fall for justice crashing down on the former president who tried to steal the election from American voters, and particularly in this case from the voters of Georgia. I don’t often get overtly political here, because I like to keep focused on the non-partisan quality of gratitude. And in this case, my gratitude is still non-partisan: all Americans benefit from the indictment brought today by Georgia’s Fulton County DA Fani Willis casting a wide net over 19 conspirators. I didn’t pay much attention to the brewing investigation, but I’ve been grateful all along that there are people who get paid to do this work and that it’s not my responsibility. I hadn’t even seen a picture of Fani Willis until this morning’s article in The Guardian; I was impressed (hugely) by her fierce ten-minute press conference tonight. And now, as she said at minute marker 7:03, “I will now take a very limited number of questions prior to going to sleep.” Thank you, Ms Willis. Good night, and good luck.

Dominoes

I’m thankful today that maybe the first domino has fallen… I’m thankful for Crawford Area Indivisible, the community that bolstered my spirits and energy in the darkest time, and continues to give me hope today. And I’m thankful for all the activists in all the communities in all the states who have risen to the occasion and worked to bolster the democracy that five generations of true patriots in my family fought at home and abroad to protect.