A question for my activist friends...

and my friends on the left generally...

How do you avoid despair? How do you not get consumed by the rage?

I find myself sinking into sort of a cynical apathy, that looks at each new outrage and says, "So what else is new?" It's not that I don't care, just that I feel beaten down.

I know that for evil to triumph it only takes good people to do nothing, but how do you keep from that?

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I just discovered while looking for blank CDs in James's room that I can make his symbols cymbals [edit: darn homophones] ring lightly by singing a given note. I'm sure anyone can do this, but I had never noticed it.

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Right now, I am burning a CD for Kevin. It runs from "Ramble On" by Zeppelin to "The Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha."

You can't say I don't expose my children to a wide range of music.