A Bit to Read

It’s a gray one today, with those rippling clouds that look like waves on a very lazy sea. We’re supposed to get rain and it looks like it.

Before I get going, thank you, Sue W, for the coffee! You are so right about the fact that we all need it, these days are draggy days. And thank you for the sewing encouragement! It is so nice to know that I’m simply processing the process, SEW to speak. Thank you, I truly appreciate it.

And now Tuesday.

Maybe today is a good day to address one of the things we don’t talk about that often: how angry we are with all that these republicans have done, actively and passively.

Yes, republicans. They try to differentiate among themselves but it’s no more than a distraction. See what they do, not what they say.

And what they’re doing is destroying the entire planet. All the things they could put a stop to this moment, if they wanted to.

The moments just keep ticking by.

Rage can feel pointless, even when we’re steeped in it. It can eat at us while doing nothing to the smug people who pretend they didn’t know and they don’t know and they won’t know tomorrow either.

And yet there it is, a fire that is stoked by every outrageous headline, every headline buried with calculation.

I haven’t worked out what to do with it either.

But there is value in saying it aloud. There is value in repeating, over and over and over again, that none of this is OK and all of it, all of it, every single ounce, was avoidable.

There is value in not letting people off the hook simply because the consequences have finally reached them. Our kindness and empathy has been used as a weapon against us for too long.

I refuse to care about people more than they care about me; I refuse to save them from themselves as though that is somehow more up to us than them.

Perhaps this flame can forge tools for ourselves, to help us, to help our communities, an extra inspiration that can see us through the murkiness ahead.

It is normal to be angry. It is a sane response to this chaos.

Anyway, that’s it for me on this Tuesday, and I hope you have a fabulous day and find a way to channel your anger into something that does you good.

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Her Cousin Much Removed
The Great Paradox and the Innies and Outies of Time Management.
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