A hard, cold rain is falling.  I know that it’s spring.  The days will grow longer and warmer, as sure as the axis of the earth inclines the northern hemisphere incrementally toward the sun.  Nature is reliable, a human concept.  “Reliable” is a euphemism for inexorable cause and effect.  Sometimes I take comfort in the constancy of nature.  At other times the thought makes me shake.  It all depends upon one’s angle of view does it not?  This rain will run it’s course and the sun will shine.  Except… there are times when it doesn’t.

We are always in part ignorant.  There are factors, causes which we did not see.  In such a case the sun fails to shine when one would expect.  The river continues to rise, the drought persists, etc.  Then one is compelled to pray.  Nothing else is to be done, except throw the dice, to take a chance that the gods might be looking down from Mt. Olympus in one’s direction.

I read The Morning update from The New York Times upon rising today.  Apparently Roe v. Wade is on the cusp of being overthrown by the Supreme Court.  A blatantly partisan court, the republican majority marinated in misogyny plays it’s hand.  Justice Alito wrote in the leaked draft:

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

“The people” is no benign term of “enlightenment.”

The Times wrote, “If the court overturns Roe, many conservative states would likely outlaw nearly all abortions. One estimate suggests that the numbers abortions in the U.S. would decline by about 14 percent,…”

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I heard this song played on the radio this morning.  I liked the rollicking momentum of the tune.   The song strikes me as a melancholy, “sweet” anthem of resistance to the darkness which is palpable.

Love Don’t

By Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Lately I’ve been feeling this way, tell me if I’m wrong
Only thing I felt in weeks, is when I leaned in to know

Singing, Love don’t treat ya like that
Nope when it’s around
Love won’t treat you like that
No honey no

Hey Mama, can’t stand around and sing
Hey baby, where we gonna be
Hey Mama, I’m tired of what I see
And I can’t bother to wait if people don’t want to change

Saying, Love don’t treats ya like that
Don’t tell me I don’t know
I know that love won’t treat you like that
I won’t let go

Ain’t it time now when we rise up and we fight it
Say you’re a lover man
Then tell me why why why what’s it gonna take to know that

Love don’t treat ya like that, babe I’m letting you know
Saying love don’t treat ya like that ya I know

Only thing I wanted was to try and find a new way
Lately I’ve been feeling that it might be the ending of days

Saying, Love don’t treat ya like that, just don’t let go
Ya love don’t treat ya like that, I’m letting you know

It’s a time we find a new way
Even if they come from all sides
They trying to turn us in to criminals
Well come anyway
And you wondered how
Take me, I won’t hesitate to tell them
That Love won’t treat ya like that babe I’m letting you know

Saying love don’t treat ya like that babe I’m letting ya know
Saying love don’t treat ya like that babe I’m letting ya know

We’re preyed upon in their little game and we cry
Deep in the night deep in your woes
Baby I can’t let em and I won’t let go

There’s a line in the sands
I think we’ll have to cross it man
If if I got got ttttell ya
Tell ya why why why why why

Saying love don’t treat ya like that babe I’m letting ya know
Saying love don’t treat ya like that I’m letting ya know
Saying love don’t treat ya like that babe I’m letting ya know
Saying love don’t treat ya like that I’m not letting go

Lyrics by Nathaniel David Rateliff