"...and another thing"

We are in times of great chaos, and change. We act as if this never happened before. All this is in fact normal. The world calls us a young country for a reason. We are in the troubled adolescence of our history.

It is the year 2021. I, and an old friend are about to be 71. As a new born she was held in the arms of a Slave relative. One born in 1856, and was 94 when she held my friend in 1950. This is not very unusual for some folks me age. 

This is how close we are to our country's primal histories. Slavery wasn't 400 years ago nor was the founding of this republic. We are closer to our collective roots than we realize. Our lives our communities our nation is still fragile even sacred. We should treat these as such.