Life milestones hit differently these days.

With our world reeling with so much turmoil, it’s hard to find the excitement for the future for our children.

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My daughter is moving into her first apartment on her own, and my son is going to be finishing his senior year and starting college at the same time in a new state.  These are things we have been working towards for the last few years and to finally achieve them should be a triumph we celebrate.

It’s not easy to accomplish these things as a single mom, single-family income, household, I suspect it’s not easy for any parents these days.

And while, we are very excited about this new phase of our lives, with everything that’s happening in politics and the planet. I don’t feel the sense of ease and hopefulness I thought I would.

Maybe this is something that every parent goes through regardless of what’s going on in the world, my worry that what should be something that children look forward to as they move into young adulthood has become more and more difficult and a lot scarier.

Nowadays, I feel like everybody needs to have their passports in order an escape route planned, and all those things I learned spending time with survivalists that once seemed crazy now don’t seem so nutty after all.

I sat last night at dinner with my daughter and her friends, and listened to them as they spoke openly about their concerns about what’s going on in the world.  I felt a little guilty in that when I was their age, for sure there was strife, but nothing at the level we are currently experiencing.

Is this really what we’re going to come to? Have we dropped so low that we as humans cannot resolve our differences peacefully and with respect and with an eye towards the good for everyone.

Is it really that hard to take care of each other?

We have become so hypnotized by the “issues” that really don’t affect us individually at all and have been blinded to the ones that truly do.  We spend way too much time worrying about who is marrying who and who’s loving who and who is having babies and who isn’t and not enough time realizing that the rich keep getting richer, and the middle class has been slowly slaughtered into extinction.

And yesterday our Supreme Court, the court that was supposed to be impartial and balanced, and measured exacted upon the US one of the biggest power grabs to date.  And barely anybody is speaking of it.

With the Chevron ruling, now the court gets to decide who is the expert, the court will be the arbiter of truth and science, and what is right, regardless of their knowledge of the subject. it will be based upon their opinion and their beliefs.

And so while we can only laugh and make jokes to hide our fear at the two old men who could barely stand upon that stage, let alone speak coherently, or truthfully, our ability to govern ourselves in a way that is grounded in facts and science has quietly been taken away.

Take care of each other. Remember that we are all humans and this planet is our home.  More and more we can count less upon the “leadership“ we have been forced to choose, and so we must start counting on each other.

I remind myself every day that Hope is a frequency and then I must keep acting from there, no matter what because the world needs hope.

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