All I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no “meaning” beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.
— Joan Didion, “The White Album”
The latest picture: euphoric Democrats flipping over the Harris-Walz news, not far on the heels of the stock market crashing, an eerily slow-moving hurricane flooding the southeast, and the conflict rapidly expanding in the Middle East. An adorable photo of Governor Walz holding a piglet goes viral weeks after many of us would have said “Governor who”? This ecstatic joy is addictive — I feel it too — and it’s giving me whiplash after the lows we’ve experienced during this long, hot summer.
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