Yes the only way to live

the searing curve of beach far below, blazing, glazed with surf and above a forgiving blue sky, framed by fir trees to left and right

steep spinning curve of slope looking right down from the trail, the calm green entanglement of ground cover imbued with a sense of entropy and vertigo... while the deeper blue of sea does a cartwheel into the sky

the glittering expanse of the sun in the sea like the impressionistic armor of a drowned warrior, with impassive pockmarked rocks in the foreground

white sea wash and wrack indelible against the blue the sea beyond, foam that seems to form messages driven by the wind

Coastal Oregon today

A tweet by Karen Piper (@PiperK) reads: "There it is. Trump would have been convicted of 'conspiracy to defraud the United States' and 'conspiracy to deprive citizens of voting rights' if he had not been elected to be president. The U.S. is in totally uncharted territory." Below the tweet is an excerpt from a document that discusses the Department's view that the Constitution prohibits the indictment and prosecution of a sitting President, regardless of the gravity of the crimes charged, and indicates that sufficient evidence existed to obtain a conviction at trial.

U.S. voters elected a felon and prevented further prosecutions of him for his many crimes. Heaven help us all.

I fear there is deep truth here.