Distressing!

 I know,  I haven't written anything in a long time.  I have something to say every day, and every day I don't say it.  I do say it in my mind, though, so it doesn't go away.  It stays there as a daily addition to feeling distressed.  Why?

Because if you think what happens today is so bad that it can't get worser, think again.  It will get worse tomorrow.  Day after day after day everywhere I look it is getting worse.  There is no place to hide.  I live for the most part inside my bubble, safe, well taken care of, insulated from what I see going on outside.  But I'm not shielded from the reality that has taken over.

I just watched a report on the Amanpour show that was so horrific that I moved from my chair over here to the computer to express myself.  I can't keep it untouched in my brain, unexpressed, any more,  The TV report focused on the desperate need for help for the millions, tens of millions, of people around the world who are suffering and dying because of lack of food, war, no shelter, disease, no medical care, and - and - and!

We don't lack the resources.  We don't lack the ability.  We don't lack the knowledge.  We lack the humanity to help.  We are indifferent.  While the current leaders in the U.S. are the gold standard in indifference, we are not alone.  Indifference is everywhere.  It is indeed distressing.

I'd like to think that in the end humanity will reassert itself and we will rise to the occasion.  But I don't see any reason to think this will happen.  I'd like to think otherwise, but I don't.  Sorry, friends, but that's way it looks today.