The memory of January 6th, 2021 is seared into my mind… as if recorded by a branding iron… it is indelible… and downright horrifying.
Over the past year the images of that event have been shuttled to the back of my mind, perhaps as a way of suppressing and guarding against the horror they inspire. I carry a lingering subliminal anxiety that relentlessly haunts me when those memories come to the fore. I worry that the country I have known, the country I have pledged my allegiance to, the country I never imagined would fall, may very well fall to depraved authoritarianism before I see my last day.
