I have no interest on dwelling in the closed minds of the left and the right, but I know how much the past several years have worn on me, my friends and so many of the people who follow my work and pictures.

So I’l briefly share my thoughts tonight in the interests both of sanity and of possibly being helpful.

I am grateful to Mr. Mueller, he strikes me as an honest patriot and follower of the law. I believe in the rule of law, and he has proven it still matters.

Over the next few days, many, if not all of his supporters will feel great vindication and resentment about his work, and many of his detractors will rage about injustice and fear for the future.

I am not a hater. I don’t hate people who disagree with me, or who support the President. I refuse to label myself or let anyone else label me.

I know too many people who have good reasons to love him, and many who do not. Nobody needs political punditry from me, I am a member of the follow-your-own mind club.

I feel relief that this is over, and hope that just maybe our elected officials and journalists and legislators might step back from their baked positions and actually try to accomplish something for the good of people who need government to help us and protect the vulnerable.

As a former political writer, I am at ease saying that people who expect any great change to come from this are continuously delusional, as they have been for a long time. The supporters of the President will continue to support him, the detractors will continue oppose him.

The people in their middle will just shake their heads in sorrow and frustration. What I hate about politics is not people who differ from me, but people who prefer maneuvering and argument to accomplishing anything on behalf of others.

For all  his honesty, I don’t believe Mr. Mueller will change a thing.

Accepting this is the key to staying grounded and positive during difficult times. Tonight, I recommit myself to the work I have been doing – with  your help – for three years. I intend to do more of the same, no matter who gets indicted or elected, or what the screaming banshees on cable news are say.

I vote with my actions, my party is sharing and helping. There is nothing rational about the news.

More and more I look at politics through the eyes of my daughter and granddaughter, as they build their lives down in Brooklyn, a different world than the one I live in. The die is cast for me, what can I do for her?

I don’t plan to die soon, but I know I won’t live to see the end of this epic struggle raging in our country. Robin will. She has to live in the bleeding world we are making for her, and for your children and grandchildren.

While politicians argue, Robin’s world is falling apart.  While billionaires grow richer, refugees starve and wither. What will she say about me and us when she is old enough to understand what is happening around her?

While people learn to hate one another on social media, and anywhere else,  the gap between the rich and the poor grows wider by the day. Neither of those realities will lead to anything good for the left, or for the right.

I care about my country, but I will not attach myself to any left or any right and permit them to think for me or speak for me or put me in their pockets. I won’t join those arguments or learn how to hate and resent other people.

I will continue to find ways to do good and effect positive change for people who need it. That is my faith and my politics. It does not feel good to me to argue and hate, it feels good to do good.

As for Mr. Mueller, I trust and respect him and will accept what he has found.

I am grateful to any of you out there who choose to join me on this path. We are making a difference, I used to laugh at the idea of sending energy, not I am proud of the good energy we can sometimes send out into the world.