This Moment Is All We Have

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about time—mine, yours, and especially this time we are all living in.

On so many days, it feels surreal, doesn’t it? One minute we’re getting a tsunami warning, then all of a sudden there’s a fire or an earthquake or a hurricane or a heat wave. Yes, that’s Mother Nature, but it also feels true of our politics. Just this week alone, Americans were confronted with headlines about The Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down, a weak jobs report, and the president’s firing of the Labor Statistics commissioner in retaliation for that report. It feels like every day brings another headline that starts with, We have never seen this before.