Day 84.

There’s a meditation exercise that I do called Blue Sky. In the exercise you imagine your feelings as clouds obscuring a blue sky. Even if you can’t see the sky, it’s always there. It’s a very steadying exercise, and one I’ve turned to often.

Today it snowed, so I couldn’t see the sky. The snow brings its own kind of peace. But when I went out for my lunchtime walk, I thought about the sky I couldn’t see.

It’s important to remember this now. Right now we can’t see the sky, but it is always there. And the current situation is impermanent. Sooner or later the clouds will go.

The other thing that’s keeping me going today is focus on the fact that we’re making headway. (Just because I know the sky will be blue again someday doesn’t mean I’m just going to sit on my duff and wait for it.) Democrats delayed votes in committees on Sessions, Mnuchin, and Price today. Minority Leader (and my Senator) Chuck Schumer has announced he will be voting “no” on eight of Trump’s nominees. The President is not traveling to Wisconsin, which he barely won, because he is afraid of protests.

He is afraid of us. And he should be. We’re like the blue sky. We’ll always be there.

Remind your reps tomorrow that you’ll always be there, calling them about what matters.