The More Things Change, etc.

I've been traveling for the past two weeks, in touch with the world, but not focused on it.  So what's new?  Not much I'm not surprised to say.  I've seen this phenomenon before.

Go away for a while.  Take your attention off day to day happenings and when you return to catch up you find there's really not much to catch up on.  Trouble spots around the world are the same.  The same people are killing the same people.  Problems at home that we're intractable are still stuck in neutral or have become worse.  So welcome to the way it is.