When taking a risk is the only option, the only question is when (and how) to act
I am feeling very January-ish these days. Maybe not surprising, since we are just past the mid-point of this inevitable opening month to the new year... A lot has happened (and is happening) on the geopolitical stage and, try as I might to make it not so, what world leaders do filters down into my daily life. I refuse to look away. In fact, I am doubling down by embracing the new-to-me social media experience of THREADS (part of Meta’s online empire that includes Facebook and Instagram). I entered the Threads world cautiously, not really wanting to be there but, once there, became swept up in the remarkable real-time documentation of the day’s news by ordinary people (always check their profile, always verify their identity). Which is how I found myself, via my phone screen, on the streets of Minneapolis seeing up-to-the-minute recordings of ICE agents doing a horrifyingly realistic job of acting like thugs against ordinary Minnesotans doing such outrageous...