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I feel better already.

Sarcasm aside, this is not a time for resignation or paralysis. Rooted in our everyday relationships and reality, it's a time to respond in the ways that are available to us. No guilt or frustration about not being powerful or active enough to solve our common threats: every action has effect.

And, no, we don't have the luxury of knowing the precise effect of our actions. Neither do we have licence to stop being with each other for the good of each other.

Thank you for being here and reading this far.

For those of us who have lived in "the West" during the post-war bubble, history is back. It helps me to consider that, for most of the world, it never left. And history evolves.

Rebecca Solnit's new book is à propos.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books. Her newsletter of essays and analyses can be found at meditationsinanemergency.com.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Timothy Snyder is never falsely hopeful or cynically hopeless.

The Desire for Terror

And the defense of democracy

Thinking about...Timothy Snyder