And Then There Was This Post From One Of My Favorite Personal Blogs

This is from AJ at Small Hands. Her brother Aaron was just shipped to Iraq last month.

In a murderous time
The heart breaks and breaks
And lives by breaking.

--Stanley Kunitz

Well.

I feel completely nauseous and disappointed. I do not renounce the Democrats, as some do. I still despise the Republicans and everything they stand for.

For some reason, I am thinking of the movie, The Pianist, and how in an insane and barbaric and murderous time, the main character (Wladyslaw Szpilman) refused to die, refused to relinquish his humanity.

We must do our work. We must fight the forces of imperialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious fanaticism.