That’s sort of how we got here even though I’m still not exactly sure where here is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The news is chronicling the next fresh hell and if you’re reading this in real time you know that I’m referencing either the death of a beloved Supreme Court Justice and the hyprocisy to replace her, threats not to pass power peacefully after the election, protests over yet another example of injustice and racism, a spike in Covid-19 cases, heat-rays or taxes not being paid by the grifter in the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it’s only Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who among us thought that we’d be entering another season in a pandemic and social and civil unrest all around us? I’d be lying if I claimed I thought shitstorm season wouldn’t have passed by now. And while some days feel darker than others and coming at us more frequently, I do hold out some hope that the light will return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe we just aren’t looking in the right places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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