Rebecca Solnit, Crystallizing

I have a number of friends who practice daily gratitude. I am not one of them. 

I think it's a good idea, but I can't seem to make a habit of it. When I visit with one of these friends, we often trade gratitudes, and I make an effort, but it feels like work. 

Here's one for today that came to me without effort: I am grateful for Rebecca Solnit.

Every word of this essay in the Guardian is worth quoting, but here are two sentences:

Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.

Thank you, Rebecca. I treasure you.