Day 27.

It’s Monday. How are you holding up?

We’ve had some victories over the past couple of days. I’m glad to hear that The KKK cancelled its planned march in North Carolina, and that counter protesters held a big beautiful rally instead.

Even more inspiring is the news that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be rerouted away from Standing Rock, after the Army Corps of Engineers refused to grant an easement to drill under Lake Oahe, the reservation’s water supply.

These are both great developments. Today it’s easy to say, “yeah! Let’s keep going!” Especially for folks like me who have been following these struggles from far away and from indoors.

It’s not always going to be easy. Some days we’re all going to have to be out there in the cold, hungry, uncomfortable. Especially the more comfortable among us.

And it has to be that way. Because what we’re fighting is so enormous, that it has to be hard. And because if it weren’t… well, why don’t I let Thomas Paine tell it.

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

Today I’m making plans to get uncomfortable. I’m signing up to go out and march on January 21. Marches will be held all over the country, including Washington DC.

What will you do?