No Kings, and hope for the future

“In the world where I choose to live, even the coldest winter must yield to the agents of spring and the darkest view of human nature must eventually find room for shafts of light.”
~ Madeleine Albricht, Prague Winter

We’ve been camping for 3 weeks, working our way through the 5,000-mile circuit required to attend the graduations of both of our 2025 graduates. * We started with me still in the grip of the Endless Illness, and ended in a tire shop in Ontario, purchasing the world’s most expensive tires. It was a good trip, filled with celebration and love and laughter. It is good to be home.

We got back just in time for the No Kings! Protests today. Just in time to get out there in the streets with the local resistance. Just in time to raise our voices once again against the tyrant in the White House.

“Acceptance of the world’s suffering as our collective responsibility and responding with sacrificial love is our most authentic task. As individuals and as a species, we must rise to it.”
~ Bishop Michael Curry

“Acceptance can look like passivity or resignation, but it’s not. For in acceptance, we actively engage with whatever we are faced with, precisely because this is what we are faced with. There’s no turning away and no turning back.”
~ Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave

I hope that you’ll be out there with me today, marching in one of the 1,800 protests across the country, and throughout the world, standing up for the promise of this great American experiment. I hope that if you can’t be out there in your body, you’ll be out there with us in spirit, holding fast against the injustices raining down all around.

“Lives are necessarily untidy and uneven. It is important, however, to have some guiding star. For me, that star has always been faith in the democratic promise that each person should be able to go as far as his or her talents will allow.”
~ Madeleine Albricht

Peaceful protests, here we come. Time to love louder. Time to be the agents of spring, the shafts of light. Time to overthrow a dictatorship with the power of the people. Let’s go.

* A few pics from the road…

Our agents of spring, our shafts of light…

We spent one week on the shores of the Big Lake to watch the Ashland kiddo walk across the stage as part of Northland College’s final graduating class… 😞

One week on the road, visiting with dear old friends in North Carolina, and then on the road again…

And one week in Acadia, to be there as the Maine kiddo and her sweetie walked across the stage in the pouring rain at College of the Atlantic…

And of course we didn’t make it through an entire journey without at least one roadside adventure. Did you know that in Canada, the tires are made of gold?