Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Awakening Moon<\/p>\n
The awakening moon has a quarter lit up tonight (though it’s half of the side we always see).\u00a0 Orion rests below it, sinking down below the horizon earlier and earlier now that spring has come.\u00a0 He’s a winter time friend, the opposite of a snow bird.\u00a0 I hope you’ve had a chance to consider the thinks in your life that need a little extra nudge as they grow, parts of you that need encouragement to awaken.\u00a0 Maybe it’s that painting you’ve always wanted to start.\u00a0 Buy some canvas.\u00a0 A garden?\u00a0 Get a shovel and a seed catalog.\u00a0 Meditating?\u00a0 Clear out a comfortable spot and buy a comfortable chair or big pillow.\u00a0 Whatever it is spring and the awakening moon will push you along.<\/p>\n
In my life it’s Latin, the novel, the Sierra Club’s legislative agenda and the new gardening year plus, of course, the bees.<\/p>\n
This health care vote will not lose the Democratic party congress or the Whitehouse for the next two generations.\u00a0 I’ve heard people make comparisons to LBJ’s famous observation about passage of the Civil Rights Act.\u00a0 He was right.\u00a0 Passing the Civil Rights Act upended the solid South and kick started the rise of the moral majority.\u00a0 The result was 40 years of conservative politics from which it will take us a long time to recover.<\/p>\n
(The Democrats will not need a fallout shelter.\u00a0 The party of no will.)<\/p>\n
Health care is in no way similar.\u00a0 The opposition to it is smoke, driven by the disinformation and fear mongering of right wing shock jocks and the little old lady from Stillwater with the big hair and the desire to smooch the Bushmaster.\u00a0 There is no comparable bloc of votes lost by providing health care to all in the richest country in the world.\u00a0 Are there mad people, some foaming at the mouth, tea drooling out of every orifice?\u00a0 Yes, I guess there such people.\u00a0 They are the party of no we can’t.\u00a0 Now, at least for this brief shining moment, the Democrats have awakened (see what I mean?) to the principles that used to inform Democratic platforms, principles that demanded a fair shake for the poorest of the poor and made sure that workers got fair wages and decent benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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