Debate Night

 Well, I watched it.  No words.  I'm embarrassed for our country that we have a bully in charge.  I'm done. I have to seriously question the integrity of anyone who can still support this man.  That's all I have to say about it.  VOTE HIM OUT

And Just Like That ...

 It is Fall!  How is it that time can seem to be dragging during this time of Covid and yet, all of a sudden a month has passed?  I often am not even sure what day it is as they all run together.  I hear the same thing from many of my friends (most of whom I don't get to see anymore).  I have had the same conversation repeatedly.  People are weary, they are anxiety ridden, they are fearful, overtaxed and overwhelmed.  And I am not going to lie ... I feel like if we don't get a new administration in November that we will be lost.  It is hard, it is scary and it seems to be never ending.  

I had this feeling in the very beginning of the Covid shutdowns that we would likely lose a year before anything approaching normal life could resume.  I still think that.  Tragically, we have lost so many lives and we still know so little about how to finally overcome this situation, that I believe that we won't ever go back to how it was.  Some of that is okay with me.  People were far too cavalier about going out to work and school, etc. while sick.  There was an attitude that we could cure whatever ailed us.  We've had a very sad wake up call.  I hope that we will finally understand (or at least most of us will) that our rights end where someone else's begin.  We don't have that right to endanger others.  I hope that we learn to appreciate the little things ... that the time spent in isolation with family will renew some values that may have been lost in that dizzy, hurry-up life style of the past.  I hope that we are less entitled and more humble.  I hope that we realize that we had the ability all along to do better had we united in our efforts.  Most other countries did so much better.  Its a hard lesson ... much harder on some than on others.  We are nowhere through it yet and we still don't have a consolidated effort.  It's heartbreaking.  What I do know for sure is that denial will never be an answer and we still have too much of that.  It is a sad time globally and particularly in the US.  I'm hoping we all make it.

So, I think that the next time we blink it will be time for the holidays and then we will go into a new year.  Maybe at this time next year we will be looking at the end of a very dark time.  I hope I'll see all my loved ones on the other side.