I don’t have anything to celebrate today. I’m less of a human being today than I was yesterday. There are a lot of thoughts swirling in my head. I don’t want this space to about the orange one or politics, but it keeps seeping in. I’m filled with despair and desperately trying to find some good to write about here. For now, this video sums up my thoughts today.
I’m going to step away from the internet for the day and clear my head. I’ve got my notebook and favorite pen, and handwriting is an amazing and cathartic process.
I will keep pushing on, just, right now, I need to pick my pieces up again before I take another step.
AJ
I’m numb. I am unable to process how so many are cheering on the end of our democracy. Growing up we heard our way of life described as an ‘experiment’. We are seeing at this moment how fragile this ‘experiment’ really is.
All my life I witnessed people in power misinterpret the Bible to be awful to others in the name of love and word of god. Over the last decade has been the rise of the crazy misinterpretation of our US Constitution. Again its only purpose is to hurt others.
Many questioned how such a devil like man came to power in Nazi Germany. Today we are finding out how easy that really was. I believe we have lost every ounce of respect/admiration we had on the world stage over the last several decades.
As a veteran I had the opportunity to attend an awards breakfast in which a friend was being recognized for community service. The pledge of allegiance was recited by the room. I paused at the line “One Nation, Indivisible “. Truth is. I have never felt so divided in my whole life.
Irene
Numb. That’s a good way to describe it. I watch as people clap in ecstasy as they pass laws that will destroy lives. I listen to the bile and hate spewed forth every day toward me and my friends. Like you, I was taught about the “great American experiment” and how wonderful it was. We were a melting pot welcoming everyone. What are we now other than a joke to the world?