There is a lot of shit going on in the world.
Innocent black men being murdered by policemen on a power trip.
Innocent policemen being murdered.
A horrific attack on adults and children in Nice.
A coup going on--or not--it seems to be unsure in Turkey.
Likely between the time I post this and the time you read this there will be something else unimaginably horrible happening.
Seriously I tried to think of a good post that would somehow lend words to these horrible tragedies.
I want to comfort those who mourn.
I have no words. How do I tell the families of those grieving their loved ones anything. I didn't know these people and policemen and innocents who were killed. Yet, my world is diminished because they left it.
For the politicians who can't get it together to agree that guns don't belong in the hands of children without a lot of restrictions, I want to do what my daughter's preschool teacher does. When two children are fighting, the teacher sits them down looking at each other. They have to say one nice thing about the other and then put a jigsaw puzzle together. If they refuse to do even that they are put on the "get along" seat until they can. I would like to see Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell on a get along couch and then doing a puzzle.
I want to fix something--and I don't know how to fix it.
How would you fix the world? What change would you like to make that would be snowballing?
Last night we were watching news commentators talk over each other at the same time in order to all state their point-of-view on the convention. That moment summed up a lot for me: A lot of people talking and no one listening. At that moment, it was newspeople. In the conventions, it's politicans. But really, a lot of empty words and very few actual step-by-step solutions.
ReplyDeleteI think many of us are feeling overwhelmed at the moment. There are not even any attempts to try to understand the other side, or be civil and agree to disagree. It is very frustrating.
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