Really Big Giant

 Roald Dahl once wrote a book titled BFG. Somehow, in my mind, I had twisted this title around in my head. It had become RBG. Mister Dahl wrote about a giant, after all and giants come in all different sizes. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant. 

She once told a group of newly naturalized American citizens, "We are a nation made strong by people like you."

She also maintained, "Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."

She was a fighter: "Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow."

And this: "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." Which sounds a lot like something the late Senator John Lewis said, "When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something."

Both of these people, when they died, set off a wave of frightened responses. Worries that somehow their passing would lead to a void. Who could possibly take their place.

Don't panic. The answer is easy: All of us. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy is not unlike that of John Lewis. It would be an insult to their memory to fold up the tents, wringing our hands, wondering how we are going to go on without them. 

No worries. In her honor. We got this. Because it's the right thing to do. Ruth Bader Ginsburg stomped on the Terra. As giants do. And she will be missed.