My pastor said when he runs into various trials, he tries to squeeze all the nutrients out of it, i.e., how much he gets to learn. This Trump presidency is my personal trial, a face-to-face, no-holds-barred, throw-in-just-one-more-clichè that is teaching me about the power of a denial circle, that it's really and literally a death spiral. I had no idea I had so much to learn.