Letter from Portland

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

I never thought I’d be drawing positive attention to someone who used to work for the Internal Revenue Service, or to a blog they write whose title features a word I can’t find in any of the dictionaries I’ve ever used.

But Jaydra Perfetti, an Oregon certified fraud examiner and private investigator who writes On Humaning, deserves it.

I’m a little late to the party. She wrote to me last August to let me know she too writes about human rights and criminal defense, and other topics related to the human experience.

She started publishing these essays not even two and a half months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and declared it an opportunity to show that we can solve what seem like insurmountable issues. Just as we had “majorly” shifted in just a couple of months the way we live our lives and conduct our business to confront Covid, she wrote, so too can we shift to make differences in climate change, and in our economic, justice, and political systems. She called that time, so early in the fight, “the perfect time to reimagine our world.”

Her latest essay, published today, commemorates the fifty-second week of the second year of Covid. Yet she’s still hopeful, and wanting to keep a light shining on what we’ve seen these two years.

Perfetti says her effort is about working to make the world a better place.

If you take a look at some of what she’s written, here, I think you’ll find she’s definitely helping us get there.