Good endings, or anyway continuings

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9 min animated video "A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair," art by Molly Crabapple, political storytelling by Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Opal Tometi. via smilingslightly.

I love the art and vision of this video. It is both amazingly hopeful and devastatingly grim. It makes me cry, both with longing, and with fear that we'll go through the grimness into ever more grimness and never come out into the light.

Regarding the latest report of presidential illness and lack of care for others' health, I am so tired of the future being cast into ever more uncertainty. I barely adjust to one earth-shaking twist when the next one shows up. Enough!!

I saw an elegantly hopeful summary of the story thus far from ckd: "In folktales and ballads, if someone were to refuse to fulfill (or worse, actively try to counter) the dying request of a wise old woman I'm pretty sure it would not turn out well for them."