What gives Jamie Raskin the strength? It’s hard to conceive him a role model since so few people have to dig down that deep in the face of illness and unspeakable tragedy. The latest Supreme Court decision about extending executive privilege over the judiciary makes any response simply more exhausting amidst the numbing horror. Such a state is not a good place from which to act. It’s as if one were sedated or administered Novocain in a dentist’s chair. Perhaps the best preparation for a Job-like circumstance is the gratuitous act. Curiously it’s something that’s in the province of classic Existentialism in which meaning is created in a succession of moments that have little to do with what verdict or executive order SCOTUS or POTUS delivers on any particular day.
read "Rhododendron" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
also read "God Bless Pig Latin America" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star
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