Nature Is Cold, Wet, Hard

The World Is A Crazy, Beautiful, Ugly Complicated Place, And It Keeps Moving On From Crisis To Strangeness To Beauty To Weirdness To Tragedy. The Caravan Keeps Moving On, And The Job Of The Longform Writer Or Filmmaker Or Radio Broadcaster Is To Stop - Is To Pause - And When The Caravan Goes Away, That's When This Stuff Comes.

We Can Hope That The Responsibilities And Realities Will Weigh On Donald Trump And He Will Not Be The President We Fear, But Rather Something More Stable.

Being Nervous, First Of All, Puts You At A Distinct Disadvantage, And If You've Really Prepared And If You've Really Thought Through How To Start The Conversation, Things Start To Fall Into Place. There Are Other Things I Get Nervous About, But Not That.

I Know From My Conversations With People In The Administration That Every World Leader That Obama Met In Berlin, In Peru, In Athens Was Extremely Alarmed By Trump's Election. That Very Much Includes Angela Merkel.

Everybody Has A Cartoon Of Themselves. Mine Is: I Write Very Fast, And I'm Ruthlessly Efficient With My Time.