Too close for comfort. 

“I thought I understood his kind: the petty bureaucrats of tyranny, men who relish the carefully measured meed of power permitted to them, who need to walk in the aura of manufactured fear, to know that the fear precedes them as they enter a room and will linger like a smell after they have left, but who have neither the sadism nor the courage for the ultimate cruelty. But they need their part of the action. It isn’t sufficient for them, as it is for most of us, to stand a little way off to watch the crosses on the hill.” 

― P.D. JamesThe Children of Men

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​The political climate is all sorts of sad. I told a particularly depressed coworker today, “just think of all the great music that is going to come out of this strife.” But I think I learned a little bit about being a positive force in the world from you. We’ve never met. We only know each other in digital ways. But sometimes it’s the little things, said just right at just the right time, that mess with our paradigms in all the best ways. 
I hope you and Allison are good. I’ve had you on the brain lately. I’m sending you guys good vibes through the air.

That makes me feel good, and it is so appreciated. I like the idea of being that guy.