I have a practice to suggest.

Every time today when you're tempted to say the words "Joe Manchin," in the spirit of noting what may not be possible, catch yourself and think instead of the people who made this day possible and of what you want to blossom because of this day.

There is nothing more boring than an obsession with what cannot be done.

Let others tell you what can't be done. Don't do their job for them.

I had an editor to whom I apologized for writing something snarky that he cut.

He told me: Don't apologize. It's your job to try to get those things into the paper, and my job to keep them out.

If you try to do my job, many good things won't get into the paper.

I have never forgotten that. For me, it's a story about how the editing mentality cramps the dreaming and writing ones.

And I think it's true for politics. Putting your mind into the place of what may not be possible alters your mind, diminishes your dreaming.

There will be time for the edit. For now, dream and draft history's next chapter.