Dick is a writer, attorney, and political activist living in Vista, California. He is the author of Paying the Rent, an autobiograpical account of anti -war and civil rights activism in the 1960’s and beyond. The book is available on Amazon.
was the subject of the meeting and I thought where the hell can we start untangling this huge, ugly monster of a topic, what edges can we grab and begin to pull carefully, like a weed, straight up, not jerking or bending the sinister connective fibers which tear off so easily, leaving roots to rise and break soil again. With a worldwide pandemic, racial reckoning summer & open rebellion by a President & his maggots of misinformation feasting on wounds of the body politic, it might take hours to agree on where to start the untangling - even then, someone is likely to disagree and leave angry, buy a bottle and visit their spouse in the cemetery. |