Reading NRO brings much needed joy into my life. It also depresses me, but this is often the way that the yin and the yang of hope/adversity travels in pairs.

At least, in society, I can know that many people feel my pain and that I am not uniquely being shafted.

We are all one in our ability to be screwed by the powers that be!

...or something

I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

- e.e. cummings