the power of clerks

Today the US Supreme Court stripped a rogue Kentucky county clerk of her power -- a clerk who bullied same sex couples applying for marriage certificates by refusing them service.

I'm not quite ready to celebrate.

Nearly thirty years ago, a clerk refused to issue me a marriage certificate because I would not take my husband's name. 

I can't help wondering if my clerk was her rebel mother.

Photo of moss in Milwaukee's Third Ward. Moss might look dead at times but, with even slight nourishment, resurrects repeatedly.