SOMETIMES......SOMETIMES..........

  Sometimes I just get tired. Yes, there is a physical element, tied to age, activities and side effects of other matters, but the tired I am referring to is not physical. It is rather a tiredness of spirit, a loss of hope, a feeling that we truly are lost somewhere in a hostile wilderness, a primeval forest, with no exit plan in sight.

I wonder, how long can the country sustain itself what with these wounds, many self inflicted shall we say by the supposed defenders of her survival in that hostile environment. Ironically enough, these people are often the progenitors of the denizens within. Can we ever expect them to see the light, know the truth and separate it from the chaff that they have been fed? At this point - I think not.

When a Party, purposely capitalized, can deny the fact that their fellow GOP creep needed to be censured for his gross cartoon featuring him in the pose of a triumphant hero, slaying AOC and Biden. Really? Blood flowing, a hero, he purports to be. No, threatening the life of a sitting President alone is a crime. Furthermore, while I am most definitely not a fan of AOC and her gang, I do not support murder, open rebellion against the legitimate members of the governmental bodies of this nation.

I am so tired of the nitpicking, the open fights, trading insults. What the hell!!! We teach kids in school that they are better than that, that there are other, better, ways to solve differences, to mediate and compromise and then we have our kindergarten adults. So tiring. So depressing. So futile, one feels.

China, rather than feed her billions of citizens, invests in a missile with a glider that can swing around the world and then hone in for the kill. Wow! I am so unimpressed. All that brainpower wasted. When there is rampant hunger, obvious mass destruction of our living environment, homelessness a growing plague of our society, diseases impressing themselves as they grow to monster proportions, pandemics awaiting in the wings. And they invest instead in yet another war weapon. How many times will we kill each other, over and over? Dead is dead. And so will be the planet be if we persist on our self destructive paths and behaviors.

I confess, a if you have not already figured it out: I hate Trump and all that he stands for. He endorses and enables a growing, most dangerous, violent anti Semitism. He is anti the people, only for himself, dragging along those who bask in his shadow, waiting to get 'theirs', stomping on all and everyone to get ahead and avoid the leper camp they will be exiled to if they displease the Master, that deranged man who needed to be locked up long ago. 

Why does the media persist in giving him the attention he craves? Why do the courts allow him to use the delaying tactics he engages in, rather than demanding a timely end to this all, a just punishment and let us move on as a nation once again. Let us, as Lincoln said, bind up the nation's wounds. There are myriads of those wounds so let us get started on a task most important for our survival. As a nation. As a leader of the free world, shrinking, even as I write. As residents of a damaged, but hopefully, healing planet. Move on.

If we succeed in doing that, then perhaps we will stop walking on tippy toes around each other. Talk politics again, a  sane politics. Perhaps the glum faces of travelers will smile again, able to be revealed beneath those infernal, but most necessary, masks. Perhaps then we will take on this new massive flu, outbreaks of COVID, or any other plague. Perhaps. Then I will be able to breathe again, as will you as well.

Sometimes, sometimes....