As I’m typing these phrases on the East Coast, on the opposite aspect of the county, fires are devastating LA. My nephew lives and works there and thus far, has not been requested to evacuate. I test in with my sister day-after-day to see if that has modified. I’ve seen photographs, watched movies and information clips. I learn mis-information, resembling numerous fireplace brigades from different international locations allegedly coming to their rescue and among the photographs have been from years in the past, and deliberate dis-information, meant to demonize leaders and disparage celebrities who’ve misplaced their houses and belongings. I shudder to think about the trauma they’re all feeling and might want to combine lengthy after the fires have been extinguished. I really feel for the animals who haven’t any manner of comprehending what is occurring. I really feel anger when contemplating how some, who’ve the flexibility to affect coverage selections, nonetheless, regardless of how extreme issues are, deny the fact of local weather change and the impression it has on a rising variety of environmental crises. Even when arson was a facet of those most up-to-date cataclysmic occasions, the frequency of the Santa Ana winds may also be attributed to local weather change.
I pray for the winds to calm, for rain to fall, for the protection of all within the path of the conflagration within the Metropolis of Angels.
Whereas that is taking place, the clock is ticking on the inauguration of the now convicted/sentenced felon. Simply because the encroaching fireplace is wreaking havoc and destruction, so too will the past perception resumed presidency. Logic and cause is as ineffective as blowing bubbles on the fireplace to place it out, because the mindset that allowed him to be elected in 2016 and once more eight years later, is senseless. It doesn’t matter what he says or does, his adherents will stand by him. Regardless of that, we have to discover a approach to reside with individuals who intend to do hurt to this nation and to these we love.
His verbiage is a part of what I referred to above within the dis-information class. He too is a local weather change denier.
In my very own circles are individuals who have misplaced family members, have been not too long ago recognized with most cancers, and different medical situations, want to seek out new employment, and are adjusting to way of life adjustments.
I’m noticing my very own want to curve up, hunker down, withdraw, sleep extra, hibernate, fold my social butterfly wings till issues return to some sense of normalcy. I’m not delusional sufficient to imagine that that can ever be achieved. Regular is a setting on a washer. The ‘now regular’ as I name it, is unacceptable to me. All through the day, I would like to speak my manner via this as I ask what I can management and what I can’t after which take the constructive motion steps mandatory to stay sane and vertical and love the world with all I’ve received.
My buddy Jon Michaels, supplied this track known as The World Goes On as we speak at considered one of my non secular communities known as Circle of Miracles. It jogs my memory that regardless of what’s going on, the horrific and celebratory, we’re on the experience for the period.
Someone’s gonna chortle as we speak
Someone’s gonna cry as we speak
Someone’s gonna take their very first breath of life as we speak
Someone’s gonna say I do
Someone’s gonna say we’re via
Someone’s gonna take a raffle and win any person’s gonna lose
The world goes on and on, and on and on the world goes on
Someone’s residing excessive on life
Limousines, caviar and wine
Someone’s working eight to 5 even over time barely getting by
And the world goes on
(Refrain)
The world goes on and on and on
It’s good; it’s dangerous, it’s proper it’s fallacious
It’s truthful, it’s not, it’s all of the world we’ve received
It’s like it’s hate, give and take, decisions and those we make
What’s to return will come after which be gone
The world goes on and on and on and on and on
Someone is a homeless man
Someone is our president
Someone is you and me so why can’t we get alongside as buddies
Whereas the world goes on.
(Refrain)
The world goes on and on and on
It’s good it’s dangerous it’s proper it’s fallacious
It’s truthful it’s not it’s all of the world we’ve received
It’s like it’s hate, give and take, decisions and those we make
What’s to return will come after which be gone
The world goes on and on and on and on and on
Someone’s gonna chortle as we speak
Someone’s gonna cry as we speak
Someone’s gonna take their final breath of life as we speak
©2003 Jon Michaels / Chad Smith
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