Dairy 113

Diary 113

Thursday, July 8th

Slowly, inexorably, the wheels of justice turn. The Supreme Court declared that the “president’s” taxes may be released to a Grand Jury. The Court declared that not even a sitting president is above the law. This may be a slow process, an all-too-human process, but it restores my faith in the rule of law as administered by human beings in difficult times. We shall see where it goes from here.

On a different note I found some more four-leaf clovers on my lawn. I decided to wait to pick them, or perhaps to leave them, and in the interim one of the bunnies that visits our garden solved my problem by eating them. I suspect the message is all too clear – one cannot preserve what chance brings, and one cannot hold onto luck. It is fleeting, and has to be enjoyed in the moment.  The ancient Greeks had an image of Success —  the winged Victory Nike — which would not stay very long. Later they developed the slightly silly idea of the wingless victory, whom they hoped would stick around. Of the two Nike was the more powerful and the less predictable.

We’d do well to remember that.