CL Pauwels at Large

I’d intended to continue my reinvigoration of my blog for the new year, but my mother died January 10th and I simply don’t have the bandwidth to deal with deep thoughts.

As Joyce Vance said in her always-informative Substack this week, “I have no plans to celebrate the inauguration of the incoming president. That’s my right as an American, to stand in protest, honoring the Constitution, our system of laws, and the presidency, but not the man who will occupy that office for the next four years. Instead, I will spend Monday summoning the courage to continue to speak truth to power in the face of what lies ahead.”

Instead, on this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, enjoy James Taylor as we consider the state of our democracy.

“There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist

There is a hunger in the center of the chest

There is a passage through the darkness and the mist

And though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest”