Hey, maybe you are struggling here at the beginning of the year, a year that has not started easy after a year that never let up.

I know I am.

Every day feels like a fresh hell and every day it's more and more clear that the only ones who are going to stand up for us is us. Same as it ever was, for certain, but it feels all the more stark in the cold of mid-January made colder still by the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.

But here's the thing to remember, even amidst all this: we are strong enough. We always have been.

So as I reminder of that I offer up, on this cold January day, this beautiful performance of the song "Cold At Night" by the Mountain Goats, complete with a string section. I've come back to this song so many times since it came out last fall because of one refrain:

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