29 November 2016 - Civil War

How to cope when a hatemonger is elected as your president? I’ll tell you what I did. I walked to a cemetery and looked at the graves of people who remembered the Civil War. Political polarization today is short of its all-time high. Some of the dead were men of military age during the war and likely fought in it, then lived to grow old. On my walk home, with the sun low in the sky and threatening a chill winter night, I looked straight up and saw wispy clouds and a reverse rainbow. A minute later it was gone, but I remember.