Notes from workshop tinkering are on hold, reading words by others instead.

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama. I think he’s qualified to say a few words, based on his firsthand experience with politics in the United States.

With a decades long career in journalism, Dan Rather has seen some shit. His recent essay posted on Facebook acknowledges things are pretty bad now, but things have been really bad before, too. He wants to remind us that every time before, people holding on to the ideals of of this nation carried it through, and that can happen again.