RBG

[I meant to post this on my blog weeks ago, but here we are. This is the same thing I posted on social media, but it captures my thoughts well from that day/weekend.] 

"Morning at the Supreme Court; mourning for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. // This morning, Sam and I walked up to the Supreme Court building to pay our respects to RBG. The scene there was reverent—people placing flowers, handwritten thank-you notes, and handmade portraitures in a makeshift shrine for this American icon; people writing chalk messages on the sidewalk (“RBG helped me find my voice”, “Hope is discipline”, “Dissent”); people wiping away tears; young women with their hair done up in a ponytail and ribbon à la young RBG. It was—altogether—a moving sight. Her passing reminds me of a Jewish proverb: “It’s not given to you to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.” She worked to the end, but that work is far from over."