Thank you Justice Ginsberg for all you did (and will continue to do) for the citizens of United States of America. I imagine all the adversity she fought through in her life and I wonder if I live my life with the same amount of courage. I heard someone discussing the ‘founding fathers’ of the United States recently. This journalist had a thoughtful point of view on what that means. Since the United States is a work in progress, (for example, our ‘founding fathers’ were the only individuals in society at the time who had franchise, rights, and power. many owned slaves) the people who ‘founded’ our society should be fluid and reflect our progress over time. Justice Ginsberg is a founding mother of our society. She punched the ceiling so many times it’s a wonder she still had hands. She was a giant. As said by her granddaughter in the piece below, it may be her late career dissents that are the most prophetic in the course of our democracy in the years ahead. She had the innate ability to write as if she was in a dark room and she held the only flashlight. May her passing and her death be the kick in the ass we all need to defend and protect the United States of America. Which includes protecting it from ourselves.