Day # 170: A Little Rant

#170

Two days before the Solstice.  It is perfect weather for it; 90* and breezy and clear.  But it does amaze me every year that the days will begin to get shorter and shorter and that in 12 days the year will be half over.  It is all part of that remarkable universe system, just keeps going around and around.

And us humans just keep making the same mistakes; we just keep repeating behaviours we know hurt us or hurt the world to one degree or another.  It makes little sense to me.  What needs to happen for people to really get the message?  A white boy goes into an old established black church where people are praying and shoots 9 parishioners.  How clear a message do we need to understand we have to do the work to change institutional cultural racism and we have to pay attention to mental illness.  We have to stop supporting war and reprioritize that money towards healing our society, from building youth centers and parks and organizing opportunities for children to have voice and to learn to know each other and each others' cultures and religions.  And we have to work on addressing mental illness as a societal issue. We have to discover compassion and find ways of addressing both the emotional and the chemical issues.   And we better do it soon.   

I did a photo shoot on the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls today.  I built my inventory for the Bernardston Farmers Market tomorrow.  It was productive and fun.