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For a couple weeks, I’ve been making the bed by grabbing the top edge of the sheet and the blanket together (up by where the pillows are), and pulling out as many of the wrinkles as possible. I repeat this method on the other side. Because the bedspread is thick, it hides whatever little wrinkles are still there. I pat it smooth, throw the pillows in place, and the bed is made.
Which is truer than I know.
The bed is made. Eventually, I will have to sleep in it.
How we make our bed is important.
The method described above is okay if we’re in a hurry and we know our sheets are basically clean. But it can’t last forever. Not for beds, and not for politics.
At a certain point, the growing population and the new challenges make the old ways irrelevant. This is when we have to strip the bed and change the sheets.
I think we’ve arrived at this point in America.
Who are we?
It’s a terrifying prospect, but we may have to reconceive what it is we’re about.
