Things like a potential nuclear pissing contest between two immature egotists; Texas and Florida still stunned by hurricane damage while Puerto Rico is in desperate trouble, lacking food and drinking water as well as . . . well, everything. Threats to our environment everywhere and a total disinclination on the part of this regime to address these threats.
What else? Rampant racism on our streets; men with swastikas and men with sheets. The muddle immigration is in and the threat to DACA; health care -- the Republicans have tried yet again to destroy the ACA and failed, for the moment -- though the current regime is doing everything possible to sabotage what remains. Next up is tax reform and if history is any guide it'll be big cuts for the 1% and pocket change for the rest of us.
I could go on. There is so much to be angry/worried/sad about; so much division in our country . . .
The fact that some Congresspersons are talking about a bi-partisan effort to improve the ACA gives me a tiny bit of hope. Perhaps at some point good sense and common humanity will prevail.
If not, there's this: the same crazy prophet who was wrong about the end of the world a few days ago has recalculated.
It's not till October. Still time to get our act together.
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Sobering times indeed. Another writer friend quoted Dickens' "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . ." and, oddly enough, I woke up two days ago with those very words on my mind. Still, we can't give up hope.
There's quite a contrast between how your words affect me and how your photos affect me.
That was on purpose, AC. It's Nature that gives me hope and calm here in the midst of the maelstrom.
Seems about time for miracles...or at least one! I looked up to see a hummingbird drinking at my feeder, who then flew up to a branch and fluffed his feathers. That will do for now.
It all feels just as crazy over here. Sometimes I feel I'd be glad if the end of the world did come! (Provided it DID end and we weren't stuck in some hellish place with no food, water or shelter like half the world appears to be right now.)
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