Courage, friends.
What comes may be bad, quite bad, maybe mortally bad for some or many people. I don’t know and I wouldn’t want to understate the gravity of this moment in any way.
We can and should grieve the national results tonight.
I know I am.
And those of us with power and access and a voice must dig deep and stand for the voiceless. We must and we will hold fast and be faithful in the fight for a more just and loving and beautiful world.
Tolkien expressed my feelings better than I ever could, knew how to speak to me in moments where I want to wail in rage at the sickness that too often afflicts humankind.
“I wish it need to have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
‘So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Courage, friends. Courage.
