THUS SAYETH.....

     Ever gotten the feeling lately that someone has been trying to get a message thru? First a little knock, a louder one when we apparently do not hear and then louder and louder and more and more until  we finally hear. 
     But what do we hear? What do we learn? And even if this is 'just' Nature, does it not tell us something? Does it not tell us that we have screwed around with our world almost to the point of no return? Should we not be trying to understand that we need to protect Mother Earth, that we need to heed the cries and calls and plights of our fellow man and woman and child?
     Or have we become totally deaf to what we hear and blind to what we see and turn our receptor cells of the brain off when the truth is clear? To me it has been frightening sitting here in NY worrying about what is happening down in Florida, reading reports of no contact with the Virgin Islands, with the total devastation of Barbuda and the miraculous minimal loss of life, though any loss is a tragedy. I worry about friends and family in Florida and I worry if I will have a home to return to? And then there is the guilt - thankful that this seems to have turned onto a different track, so while we will be hit with winds and rain and G-d forbid tornadoes, the onus will be on others. Less for us and more on others? Thankful but guilty? Wish the damned thing had gone out to sea and died there.
     And yet the world must continue but there is the same nonsense going on. The Senate tells Trump that his foreign policy, his State Department is in a retreat from the world. That has been tried before and it does not work. We read of moderate Republican Congressmen retiring and we wonder which extremist will replace them? We wonder how people could refuse to vote for aid for those affected by these hurricanes? In what world do they live? Where have they left their hearts and souls?
     Trump has stated that he finally  realizes that people "f*****ing hate him!" Well. That was a big duh!
     The answer. I think, is that we try to think of others before we make decisions, before we ignore them, before we demean others because they are of differing religions, colors, or orientation. The sooner we remember that we are the same underneath it all, the better off we will be. The same red blood flows in all our veins and I do believe that these disasters are teaching us that as black rescues white, Moslem turns to Jew, straight turns to gay and it makes no never mind for the water makes no difference and the howling wind does not differentiate.
    So please, all of you, stay safe and let us all pray for the safety of those on the islands and for our people waiting, waiting, for the storm to hit down there in Florida. And then - volunteer and send what is needed.