The first title was: Nebraska...

...but now, it's Vietnam. I just finished watching the first episode of the masterful Ken Burns' new documentary The Vietnam War. After all of these years, I am often thinking of it, again. There is something familiar about that much pain and horror, or the potential for it, in our current political catastrophe. For me, for many of us, there is an intense mournfulness, a dread, that I never thought I'd feel again about national life.

This image, really just some hosta leaves, made me think of scorched earth.

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