TIME TO WHISTLE?

In The King and I Anna explains her method of handling fear. She tells of whistling, a method by which she hides her fear and anxiety and at the same time firming up her strength to move forward. Double purpose, double success. Of late, I have found myself walking around the house whistling. Huh! Since when did I think I could whistle and carry a tune with that whistling? Does it even matter whether or not I can, if that whistling enables me to go on, to walk through life apparently unconcerned, or with manageable concern and " and no one ever knows I'm afraid".

Interesting thought with an interesting carry through. What if we all were to whistle, softly, with ever increasing volume and confidence, and finally full throated. What if that were to give us all the strength to carry on, to do what must be done. What if it gave us both external and internal strength, an ability to deal with the real problems of our lives? What if that whistling would somehow clean the bewaxed ears of supposed leaders, clearing a pathway to their benighted brains, allowing the whistling of the world to be heard, encouraging them to whistle along? Could we then find a way home, a much-needed way, unlike the Children of Thunderdome so depressed and demoralized that they gave up on a "way home". 

However, we do need another way home. A successful one, a positive one, one which allows for us to attempt mending the rifts of the nation and the world. One that enables us to find our own inner core, the innate goodness, the positive impetus within all. What if? What if indeed. Can whistling actually work? I doubt that our solutions will be so simple, but somewhere, somehow, we must try, we must take a first step.

We are already in political quicksand up to our waists. Going down even faster than before. No rescuing or rescuers in sight. No convenient branch to lend a hand, a way out and home. Nowhere. Yet, we must continue to look, not give up, not cede to the powers of evil, revenge, dementia and  lawlessness, a legal system which mocks justice, makes a bitter joke of fair play and equality.

Heed the warning, the heavy stones that force us ever deeper in that quicksand in a mire of our own making. Heed them before it is too late. The clock is not on our side.

In Virginia staffers are let go, fired, so those who agree in “philosophy and legal approach.” can be appointed instead. (Whence our diversity?)

"no unanimity on how best to go about deterring Russia or what measures to take in the event of an attack on Ukraine."  (WWIII?)

"We are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false." ... the public needs to know, we've never had that before."

"The idea that the Trump base is some narrow group of white men with guns? Bullshit. This is a huge movement including misogynistic women, including racists of every kind, but also including all kinds of educated people in cities and suburbs," he expressed to The Guardian.

He continued: "It's also a movement against liberalism, against what the Democratic party in their view has come to represent. It's about race, all kinds of forces, people's idea of what the United States ought to be. This movement embraces autocracy, authoritarianism, a peculiarly American neo-fascism which Trump represents."

"Flyers containing an antisemitic conspiracy theory linking the COVID pandemic with several American Jews were distributed throughout Miami Beach Saturday night."

Lists 14 prominent figures, identifies them as Jewish, Similar flyers are posted on various extremist groups’ websites and have also been distributed over the past few months in at least eight other states including Alabama, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas and Vermont," (AND HERE WE GO AGAIN!)

Newt Gingrich states: January 6 committee members will have the tables turned on them if the GOP should gain control of Congress.... face a real risk of jail for the kinds of laws they’re breaking.” (Really? Who has broken the law? Look at the man in the mirror.)

Care for a whistle or two?

How do we get back to the power of whistling? By doing it. By mending the errors of the past, by acting rather than live in apathy, by accepting that we all can contribute, rather than be hopeless dupes of evil-minded characters with their own agendas, none of which bode well for the simple folks. Even as more and more of those "simple folks" are absorbed into that ugly mass of drowning hopes and futures. That ugly mass of rolling, self-consuming, world destroying zombies in our own version of War Z. Before it becomes too clear, too late, that we ourselves are the zombies, self-consuming even as we eat all else in our paths. Before we totally lose the power of empathy, of sympathy, of good will - or has that already taken place?

"Just whistle a happy tune" - would that it were so easy, so simple. But whatever works is whatever we need. Now. Time is not with us. The hatred is consuming us all. People are becoming so enmeshed in their own false beliefs, accepting lies as truths, that they simply cannot, or refuse to, hear the truth as truth. I see it within my own circles of family and friends. I see the growing unwillingness to discuss, rather than demand or dictate. I see it - and hopefully enough others will see it as well. Others who can join the whistlers, raise the volume, endow it and us with growing strength, and crack the shells encasing all of us.

WHISTLE. 

WHISTLE. 

FOR YOUR LIFE.

FOR THE KIDS.

FOR THE FUTURE.

NOW.