Jason Arday is still dead.

There are tens of thousands of people in Gary, Indiana facing a second week without electricity.

Measles is back.

And so I hug my nephews and count my blessings and increase my charitable donations.

There remain reasons to believe, reasons to keep going.

Annoy your enemies by thriving.

Attribution

The enemy is not time but all those things we accumulate from day to day. As soon as we pick up a thing, we can’t stop. For one thing demands another. It’s the cohesion of a life. We would find bodies near the door. A suitcase beside them.

— from Everything around me is shaking (Tout bouge autour de moi) by Dany Laferrière; translated by Sophie Lewis.