Reckoning With This Vicious World

Don’t let it make you anxious or merciless or indifferent. This moment requires balance, compassion, and love from each and every one of us.

Holopherne (1961), Dorothea Tanning

Life in America feels terrible at the moment. There’s an angry monkey in the control tower, pressing random buttons to see how much money he can save and how many people it kills. Does it kill the right kinds of people? Does it hurt those who are already suffering, already powerless? No worries, then. Will it increase …