in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

I've talked to a few folks this morning who were talking about stopping work on their creative projects. Because it's "not important anymore."

I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.

We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.

One thing many activists I admire have in common is that they don't see hope as a fleeting thing that just visits when things are good. They see it more like a skill you practice or a muscle you build. As Mariame Kaba succinctly put it, "Hope is a discipline". friendsofattention.net/sites/defaul...

Keep making art. Keep writing your stories. Even if they must exist in secret for a time, they are important - each of them a little act of rebellion.

Most of all, keep on living. If you can muster no other motivation on some days, then do it out of righteous spite for those who want you gone.

New this morning

"The greatest act of rebellion and love is to press on, for those that have come before and those that will come after, press on."

here's a rainbow i watched fade in and out of visibility

"dude...okay...dude...okay...a drum machine...but with fart noises...fart noise drum machine"