Water is Safe

Just when you begin to think that all is well in so many areas of your life, something BIG happens.  Yesterday, I was becoming comfortable with less work than I am accustomed to.  Less work and less pay, to be honest.  I made some phone calls about PT work and looked at some photography gigs and trying to figure out when the mediation training will be available.  I listen to the news and avoid political discussion with people that seem blind and ignorant to me.

My heart aches a bit for the pain in the world.  The middle east is a total mess and instead of blaming Democrats or Republicans, I think I can say that out Middle Eastern foreign policy has not been adequate.  As a successful democracy we were arrogant to think that we could take two diametrically opposed theocratic entities and quickly reach accord.

Our spies and intelligence gathering is complicated by agencies that spew false and misleading information.  Politics has become an albatross in our existence.  Partisan politics has made what was already challenging into a swamp.  I guess the lies we have told ourselves and others are coming back to us.  Democrats and Republicans blame each other, but really, it is just Machiavellian manipulation of the masses in order to have momentary control of the purse string to further one wacky agenda or another.

In the US, death surrounds us.  Destruction and and disregard for fellow people abounds.  Money means everything.  It is the medium by whiich we judge success.  It is reason we pursue objectives.  It is currency of much more than the land.  We have turned it into the currency of legitimacy.  No money means no value, no worth, no competence.

#DAPL and the multinational corporations bully the little people of our nation.  Gas and oil are more important than clean water, when you get your drinking water from some where else.

Kids struggle as they see their parents and the adults in their lives with making do...food, housing, entertainment, and social life overwhelm families. Kids search for love and belongingness - we too often fail them.  We have left them indebtedness, falling wages, anti-science education, depression and relationship issues.  If they are our future, we are surely doomed.

But the sun will rise today and we have a chance to do better.  We can be better neighbors.  We can be better parents, partners, workers, friends and citizens.  I am going to do my part.