I try hard to avoid politics with my blog thing but sometimes the news screeches at me and I feel obliged to speak up a bit. Today’s political hoopla gives me deep sadness… I’m still not finding any sense in it all. Billions of dollars were spent during last year’s political campaigns… that money could have done quite a bit of good for some of our less fortunate citizens. The ultra-rich are far too common in our political machines; and I don’t know about you but that troubles me greatly.

I’m beginning to feel numb inside… but I’m not going to allow that to fester. None of this makes sense to me; but then again all of it does. My Mother used to jokingly say “No sense, no feelin’ “ if one of us fell down but didn’t react much from the pain. Well much of the politics these days makes no sense. But for the no feelin’ part… well… as you may have guessed this post is not gonna be a very Happy Friday.

One of my favorite analogies to describe Our Creator came to me years ago in the form of an anonymous quote: “Nature is God’s reflection.” I take that to mean everything from what we can’t see with a microscope to all that is too distant to see with even the most elaborate telescopes. Then it was pointed out to me that we are all part of that reflection. So all of us deserve to be respected and treated kindly; regardless of our political leanings.

I’ll make this rant short and sweet: I believe it’s our duty as free citizens for EVERYONE to please pay close attention to what’s going on and be ready to speak out loudly and repetitively when our values start getting dragged into the swampy muck. We all need to speak up for equality and decency, and speak OUT against hatred and division. We all need to be kind and take care of each other.

Some of us remember a similar time; and we had songs, many of which are still being sung today, to remind us.

Gonna be a long four years. Long Time Gone…