Without Context
A short story: my friend’s 11 year-old daughter said that she has to leave her cell phone in a bucket by the door to her classroom. Like some old lady I said that they didn’t have those when I was in school. She responded, “Buckets?” Yeah, it’s funny, but also speaks volumes into our current political/global situation—without context there is no understanding. We shake our heads: How are we going to describe someday life under a pandemic? I can add to that a long list of other things that unless you lived through it no one would understand. I certainly don’t understand and I’m living it right now. How 72 million people could have voted for a man who said he likes to grab pussy, paid off porn stars, and even said his own daughter was hot. How Christians can vote for someone so diametrically opposite of what/who a Christian should be and say they are voting their conscience, their values. How folks can vote against their better interests by trying to overturn the Affordable Car...