EVER GET THE FEELING....

     Ever get the feeling of exhaustion, that the strength is just not there any longer or the efforts are not worth anything? Well, today is such a day, at least for me, and I know there are many others out there that are beginning to live in a fog of exhaustion, wondering what the hell is going on with this country and this world.
     Doo doo doo doo - an approximation of the Twilight Zone intro music. Ever feel we are living in that world now? Everything seems to be upside down. Our values have been trashed. Our behaviors are beyond acceptance in so many cases. Our bonds as a people, as a nation, and yes, as a world, have broken. The question is - can these broken pieces be mended - and before it is too late?
     So why the Twilight Zone? Well, lately there have been more and more news features and stories about alien life, extraterrestrial visits, UFOs, and hey, we even have the resurgence of Roswell on TV, with aliens living among us. Hmmm. I don't know about you, but there are some characters I know....
     The latest is the exploration in South AFrica which determined that there were ancient extraterrestrials who visited. And then of course we have the upside down theory that aliens came here to earth long, long ago, and killed off the native population and remained as the people of earth so that would make guess who the ETs?
      Now do not get me wrong. I actually do believe there is life out there. What form? What level of development? Friendly? Not so friendly? Could not speak to that, but I cannot believe that in this entire universe, the vast majority we have not yet explored, there is only one form of life, one civilizaton? Hey, G-d is too smart to pin all his chips on one bet and certainly not on the human race!!
      In fact, ever get the feeling that G-d is a tad angry at us? Here we are, given a most beautiful orb in space with food for the taking, arable land to plant more, animals for clothing and food as well, a variety of flora and fauna beyond words, the ability to heal so many if we did it right, used nature's bounty, and what have we done? We have polluted the waters, trashed the oceans - the oceans!! - ruined the lands of the earth, increasing desertification, induced starvation and wars for survival on the lowest level, trashed just about everything. And what have we done with the brains we were given? We use it to deny the truth until it is too late. Trump, the moron, who delights in calling other people names, is appointing a science panel, you should excuse the misomer, who will deny climate change, probably try to convince us the sky is the limit for more oil exploration, for fracking, for clear cutting of rain forests, for lack of conservation and on and on. Pseudo science at its worst under the aegis of the worst president ever!! And we have allowed it all.
     Well, at least this has given me the energy to move on, to get on with the day, but truly, what with tornadoes, monster storms, floods that do not quit, oceans that will swallow us up, trash being shipped back and forth across the ocean with the truth being that we no longer have where to place all our wasteful trash - well, maybe we ought to sit back a bit, reenthuse our connection to the world around us, straighten out our crazy corrupted world of politics and government and just maybe, make apologies to G-d for trashing His works. Can't hurt!