After a Hiatus
It’s been a year since the last letter from Llwddawanden and during that time the actual country in which those posts are written has been racked by the invasion of American cities by the Trump administration, the murders of Racheal Good and Alex Pretti by masked ICE officers cosplaying stormtroopers, and the spread of mass detention centers across the United States. But the year has also seen a ground swell of resistance rising to meet the radical right-wing assault on the institutions and the principles that make a democratic society possible.
At their core, The Druid Chronicles are about individual acts of courage and kindness in the face of socially sanctioned bigotry and injustice. Now, faced with the onslaught of mayhem being carried out with the express purpose of giving absolute authority to a tyrant who makes my books’ mad king look like Mother Teresa, it is my hope—and my intention—to have some part in that resistance by joining local community actions in support of targeted minorities, taking part in public protests, and connecting with local, regional, and national groups* that are bringing our separate voices together to drown out the radical right’s hate-filled rhetoric.
For today’s post, therefore, I’m sending out a song written by Malvina Reynolds, here sung by Pete Seeger, that encapsulates for me the resilience and power of the drive toward truth and justice: God Bless the Grass
*It seems to me a sign of our strength that there so many sites to choose from. Given that censorship is a basic component of the authoritarian toolkit, I commend:
Unite Against Book Bans, an initiative of the American Library Association and
www.writersfordemocraticaction.org/substack
A. M. Linden
Well said. Thank you for the Pete Seeger song.