POUNDING SAND

  That is an interesting expression and always wondered about its origin. I finally decided to look it up and found that it actually originated at least in print in North America way back in 1857. It means according to most sources, the telling off of someone or the attempt to make one realize that what they are doing is stupid, a hopeless, meaningless task - and to stop. Today many of us are engaged in seemingly pounding sand activities and I wonder if we realize that. Are we Don Quixotes fighting an impossible war to win or are we the gleaming knights of the Round Table, always there to pound sand for as long as it takes, for however strong we must be in finding the right path and encouraging others to do the same.

Here is a pounding situation but you decide who is doing it and who is correct in actions. Are we at the point of useless combat, should we cede victory to the enemy? Yes, the enemy, or do we continue with our own sandbox playtime, understanding that it is not a child's activity nor futile. Not if we wish to fulfill our tasks on this earth. That is the task to correct its errors, to be humble in the face of courage, to appreciate the morals and values which should be integral parts of our souls. Moreover - to realize the importance - and the difficulty - but not to take the low road, the easy way out, but to do what must be done, what should be done - no matter the difficulty. Too many of us do not or not consistently, at times tired of the somewhat Sisyphean task.

Who else is pounding sand, in direct contest with our own activity? Well, DeSantis has worked hard indeed to corner the market on the negative side of this activity. In order to feel of use, to gain a name and place in the muddy sandbox he lives in, his manifestly favorite abode, he has dug himself deep into the sand, not realizing that as with the sea, a tide will come and sweep him, his playmates, and his ephemeral castles away. We hope. We pray. 

We must work for that goal. We must counter him and all those like him all around the world who have taken that low road, so endangered, we hope, by the cleansing seas whose tides can sweep clean, giving us a fresh slate, a new canvas on which to build and paint our better world, above the effects of the sea to erase our accomplishments.

He has picked yet another fight, this time with the College AP authorities, demanding, mandating his way, always and only his way - with a hugely wrong law, an immoral law of the caliber of Hitler, the Don't Say Gay bill. It attempts to negate the living presence of anyone who does not comply or fit in within his narrow, so morally wrong, so dangerously wrong definitive outline of a proper human being.

Time and again he has succeeded in restricting rights, in oppressive measures, enabled by craven legislators. He has actually chased thousand from Florida, for they fear for their safety, the intact families they have built. And they are right.

Why? Because he poses a universal problem. Should he gain the GOP nomination, and Lord help us, actually win, via the unthinking herd mentality of the times present majority of Republicans then indeed, his pounding has proven to be louder, lengthier than ours. 

All around the world there is a synchronized pounding of the extreme right wingers. These are the ones who push violence, prejudice, hate, resurrecting the negatives of humanity from their putrid graves. They are wreaking havoc, bloody havoc, all round the globe. Country after country is exploding, within and without, many being the chess pieces on the boards of mighty powers, a la China, Russia invades Ukraine. Quel surprise - not- yet again the use of the Jews as a political football, claiming them as "Jewish friends". 

More than recreating Florida in his evil image, the first Fascist State of AmeriKa, with the rest to follow, his danger is actually universal. Should he be in position of power, Lord help us, for we obviously cannot, will not, help ourselves. We will have indeed pounded sand. G-d forbid, imagine the world he wishes to impose on the populations of the world - suppressed, repressed, oppressed, censored, all rights retracted, the worst standards of mankind.

Think not? Please, prove me wrong, I beg you. But you cannot. The outcome is as clear as daylight used to be, before we polluted it so badly, along with the pollution of humanity. An on-target evil synergy emanating from a misused patently evil 'togetherness'.

Evidently, from the huge readership I had over the weekend, over a thousand readers in one day from all over the world - amazing, right? - it is clear that there are many others worried about this newfound application of pounding sand, the horrific nightmare inducing thought of an actual possibility, of the truth of these words.

So let us pound sand in the newfound interpretation of its very important usage and place in our lives. Let us use its resultant power as an inspiration of, to, for a positive togetherness. I beg, plead, with every posting that we remember its immediate necessity, importance and vitality. There are results. 

Let us continue. 

For the sake of all of us.

For our children and grandkids.

 For us.

We must act together, in concert, in harmony.

Together - Together we can achieve it all. 

Together we can

HEAL THE WORLD.

HEAL YITZY!

Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah

May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu. 

May he be granted a timely and complete healing.

May he always remain on the road of faith, healing and strength.

May we all walk on that same road.

May Hashem hear all our voices raised in prayer. 

Amen. Amen.