An old photo from Vancouver Island, but it makes me feel hopeful that winter will end, the snow will melt, and the trees will leaf out again.
Sadly the news does not make me hopeful. trump fuckery continues. Now he wants Greenland. He is like a greedy toddler who is never satisfied with what he has. In Buddhist terms he is a hungry ghost, with an insatiable need for more due to his greed and attachment to life (or in my opinion, his fear of death).
I'm tense and my muscles know it. Jack knows it too. He is a very empathetic child, but like children often do, he attributes my tension to his actions. It's not just him either, I do the same, and so does Katie. I can feel the anger, the irritation, the fear in others but I usually don't know what causes it. Sometimes it is easy to figure out, someone has cancer = fear, anger, grief, sadness. Someone has just lost someone = fear, anger, grief, sadness. Those are the much easier ones to understand but humans grieve so many things, loss of health, loss of independence, loss of a job, loss of our own values, loss of friendships, loss of autonomy, loss of dreams, or loss of meaningful work. The list is endless and it's anyone's guess what is causing the anger, or the irritation, or the fear in others. But it's there and it's palpable. I see it in how someone moves their body, in their facial expressions, in their words, and in the tone of their voice. I can feel it all around me right now.
I think it's the tension that's making me so tired too, again, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. "Fatigue makes cowards of us all", which is what an authoritarian leader depends on. Keep the pressure on, make life so chaotic and unpredictable that people are too tired and worn out to respond. Grind them down for so long that people are no longer able to fight back and then do as you please. It's not just happening in the US, it's happening in Alberta as well, and it definitely happened in Gaza. The best way to bring a society to it's knees is to starve them.
I guess I should be thankful that I grew up in such peaceful times, because these times right now, they're hard to deal with. I wonder how my parents coped.
On that bright note, here's some funnies to lighten the mood.
Yes, looking for a bit of fun even now is the way to go. Otherwise what are we fighting for anyway?
ReplyDeleteThat's so true Liz. Thank you for the reminder.
DeleteBuck up there Missy. Too bad you aren't here, we could freeze together! I hear the annual 30-belows are on their way. Lovely. -Kate
ReplyDeleteI would quite happily sit and stay warm with you while the winds blew outside. I feel much better today. The lump on my clavicle is nothing.
DeleteI'm not sure I've left the house and yard in a week. That's pretty hard to believe. Needless to say, I'm pretty sure I'm depressed. Now- am I depressed because I haven't left Lloyd or have I not left Lloyd because I'm depressed?
ReplyDeleteGood question.
These are not easy times.
I think you haven't left Lloyd because you're depressed. Lloyd and your home are your safe place. These are horrible times. "It was not the best of times, it was the worst of times", to butcher an opening line:)
DeleteDidn't realize how tense I was until I couldn't stop laughing about the Husky. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Amanda:) I did a double take when I saw the meme.
DeleteA wonderful post and the memes are great! Only the dog is owned ... LOL The dog owns you and he has friends! ❤️
ReplyDeleteOne good thing about the internet, is you get to see how people live with and love their pets.
DeleteYes, I am feeling that fatigue and also, unusual for me, difficulty sleeping. I'm tense and afraid. I hope there was a good reason to do that to the Husky! Poor doggie. Been neutered, LOL. I won't comment any farther on that one. ;)
ReplyDeleteI think if you get a tattoo and you're not sure what it means, maybe you should be neutered. Just saying:)
DeletePar-TAY at the dog's house!
ReplyDeleteApparently deer and dogs get along pretty well. Who knew?
DeleteThe news is so incredibly sad as well as scary. Fingers crossed we still have midterm elections in November.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too because the world can only take so much of this fuckery.
DeleteThe sun will return...there's a little more each day.
ReplyDeleteWe saw the sun make it over the houses last night. First time in weeks.
DeleteThe husky photo is funny. I feel like I am full of dread all the time now
ReplyDeleteDread is the right word.
DeleteI think it's interesting that you can sense people's emotions because I find they usually have to hit me in the face before I realize something's going on. I did mention not so long ago that I thought my little grandson was anxious and my son and DIL said that they'd been fighting a lot so maybe I picked up on it. Or maybe I only notice emotions in people I'm close to. Who knows. I hope you are feeling brighter soon and I just love those memes, especially the guilty looking dog in the first picture!
ReplyDeleteNoticing the emotions in others often makes life harder, but it did make me a very good nurse.
DeleteEach day is almost beyond parody at this point here in the US. It is fatiguing and so upsetting; you feel like whatever you do isn't making a difference. Watching Carney and Macron speak, then watching Trump's press conference, was horrifying.
ReplyDeletetrump is not just an embarrassment to the US, but to the entire human race.
DeleteThank you!!! I am tired all day and I know why. I'm also a bit muddled. We are bombarded daily, it's very difficult to handle.
ReplyDeleteFuckery is tiring to deal with. I suppose the clinical term would be cognitive dissonance but I prefer fuckery:) I wish the republicans felt some cognitive dissonance.
DeleteI am finding that I seem to have a pit in my stomach more often times than not, and I blame it on the toddler that is in the White House. I am tempted to order a shirt and wear it that says..."I didn't vote for that felon."
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that if you had those t-shirts printed, they'd sell like hotcakes.
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