It is very hard to gage the health of this country, of its democracy, of its institutions, of its justice system these days,
An aberrant cloud which overtook us some years ago still overcasts us all, it casts a deep shadow, always this shadow,
There is deep distrust among the citizens, and this appears to be the goal of certain individuals, and in this they have succeeded,
A few days away from the madness helped me get my life back in order, but rejoining it again today, it seems to only be more acute, the direness has not healed, the wound still raw.
It seems unreasonable in this country to incite violence, in order to stay relevant, yet that is clearly what is observed,
No good can come from the bad, especially when the bad is misinterpreted as the good by so many, the judgment of so many in question,
One must only hope that sense will return to enough to ensure a possibility of stability going forward,
But this hope may be too fleeting to try and grasp, there is a level of insanity, we are but frogs on over the flame in the pot of water, the mercury rises.
So I stay away from confronting the absurd now, it seems that there is not even any shared language anymore, let alone shared facts,
A very disturbed person is cherished, is admired, irrationally thought of as competent to lead us, even after many momental failures,
And some can only think of party, not of the individual, herein lies much danger,
For the traditional values of the country our being hit with by a pickax,
And many only wish to join in with their own instruments of harm,
This is about all I can say, in my vague way, in these troubled times,
We are not out of the woods, we are among barriers of deadfall,
May the God of our understanding be just to those so deserving of it,
May a normal return, although we may not recognize normality again.
30th posting, March 26, 2023