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The last year has changed things considerably: When someone says they do something religiously, I wonder if that means they themselves do it without due consideration – while judging others who do it.

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Promise me that you will always have a doubt. Certainty is the rancorous poison which puts to slumber our humanity. It allows us to throw the punch, whether manufactured of damning words or clinched and coiled fingers. Doubt causes a flicker of consideration, allowing our better self to impose.

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All the movies portray the crazy person fighting friends and family, insisting that illness hasn’t touched them. Except in the real-life version, all the people still defending Trump are collectively playing that role. Those of us around you are trying to help, even as you flail around in possessed denial.

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Me, re-imagined as a radical, both inside and out.

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I re-imagined Trump’s inaugural photo, without any satirical intent. Intense.

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