Jimmy Carter ...
… was a good man.
How strange it sounds to offer that as an accolade, and have it sound so profound, and so rare.
We are living in times of greed and selfishness and arrogance and pretension and cruelty. This grand man was everything but.
Would Donald Trump call him a loser because he gave so much for so long and got so little understanding back? There's a new accolade now: Live your life in such a way that Donald Trump will call you a loser.
We knew the long goodbye would end soon, but it strikes me as especially sad, as if a chunk of us --- the kind and decent us --- has broken off like a chunk of ice from a glacier to float away and disappear forever.