If you didn’t memorize that in school, learn it now. Think about what a perfect union would look like. How do we elect leaders who work to promote the general welfare and promote domestic tranquility?

Way out here in my little state, my little state capitol has become a fortress. All lower windows are boarded up. Concrete barriers are blocking access.

Until the pandemic, You could just walk all around it, snapping pictures. you could walk right in and watch both houses in session and take pictures in the governor’s office. Since the insurrection in DC, you can’t get close, fearful of thugs who have no clue what peaceful assembly means or what their First Amendment rights actually are. You can see, I stole this picture from the newspaper. We are warned not to go over there this week.

I wish everyone before getting a driver’s license had to be able to recite the Preamble to the Constitution, and then I, an old Citizenship tutor, personally, would like to quiz them about what it means.

No domestic tranquility anywhere right now.

Hope seems to be on the horizon. On the personal level, I got my first Covid vaccination this week. On the national level, actually, on the global level, a corrupt administration — dare I say regime? — will end and a new one will take its place. We can be hopeful but not yet fearless. That will take more than a swearing-in of new leaders and a shot in the arm.