Gordon Forgey

The current Time Magazine has an amazing photograph.

It is of a Great White shark breaching out of the water in an attempt to catch a small seal. The shark’s mouth is wide open and its teeth are extended. The seal is not in the shark’s mouth as one might expect, but stretched across its snout as if doing a circus act on a big ball. The little seal evaded the shark’s teeth only to ride its nose high into the air.

Many Americans over the last four years have been in a position like that little seal—trying desperately to save their lives in the face of extreme threats and challenges.

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