Happy New Year!
KUOW, an edit to my Christmas Reflection, and a hard look forward
Happy New Year!
I hope yours is off to a good start. I heralded in the second quarter of the century (!!!) with my wife and kids, my sister and her husband and their four kids, and my parents. The Davis family dozen had a lot of laughs and made a lot of noise.
“It’s good. It’s good!” - Channeling one of my favorite fictional Christmas characters.
A few quick updates going into the year
KUOW
My appearance on Week in Review is finally available via podcast. (There had been some sort of glitch). You can listen on KUOW, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Oh Holy Night
Somehow in my Christmas reflection, I managed to squeeze in two typos in the second verse of Oh Holy Night. Tough when you screw up your favorites! Alas, I was in a hurry to get my holiday chores done so I could get to holiday-ing. The correct version is:
Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother
And in His name, all oppression shall cease
What Comes Next?
Yesterday’s atrocity in New Orleans popped the holiday bubble and reminded us we live in truly trying times. The explosion of a bomb in a Tesla in front of Trump hotel unfortunately felt like the right metaphor for the year we are facing.
And yet, we need not give up hope.
Moving forward, we should not join with the capitulators and the collaborators who would seek to appease the authoritarian impulses of the Trump oligarchy. Instead, we must stand strong, and stand together in solidarity, and refuse the intimidation.
We must be truth tellers—yes, in our personal lives this truth should be seasoned with love and kindness and listening and empathy—but truth tellers nonetheless. We must also be truth-livers. (Yes, okay, that doesn’t quite work). While we all deserve a degree of normalcy, we must live like the future of our country depends on us. Because it does.
I know I plan to keep at it. I hope you will too.