13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th - and Art - On Parlez Vous Monday

 

The Reconstruction Amendments and the Gilded Age Amendments

People may believe the text itself might be boring, but the effects are already ... not boring, so much

Sam Alito Throws a Tantrum When Justice Jackson Calls Him Out 

"Art Is Always the First Target" -- from Jane Fonda's Discussion with Stacey Abrams

In any event, we can also start with art, which is generally inspirational and exciting -- and, as Jane Fonda tells us in conversation with Stacey Abrams, part of democratic infrastructure, and anti-authoritarian in that it goes against what wanna-be autocrats are trying to tell us, which is "this is the way things are always going to be and they're never going to be different" -- while seeing art and doing art helps us train to imagine things as they could be, as different than they are, and ourselves as creating different possibilities

and for another boost - here is Dr. Stacey's absolutely must-read inspirational "lift up" message from yesterday 

"Jump at de Sun." A Sermon for the Mothered, the Motherless, and the Ones Who Learned to Rise