Heck is the least I want to say right now. Let's start with the immediate and obvious target of "What the heck is going on in this country" is the rise of the Trump machine. So I say, What the....? Does anyone believe that this sideshow can amount to anything remotely doable? Has there been a single plan put forward by this poll-leading reality show whereby we can judge how any of the high rhetoric will be realized? Maybe this another one of those times when I vow to move to Canada or beyond if this fiasco goes forward. Next is the "What the heck is anyone thinking while the climate disinigrates taking all of us with it". Where is the outrage when entire species disappear? Or when our own lives are endangered by rising sea levels, burning plains, raging rivers, tornatoes and hurricanes without match? Where are the demands for action....immediate action!? Next is "What is going on around my town"? There are empty storefronts as far as the eye can see. There is much wringing of the hands but no immediate concerted action. Each and every citizen has a stake in filling those empty stores with products and services they can use yet we sit back and wait for.......? Someone else to do it? Some miracle to happen? Some pennies from heaven to finance an economic resurgence? Finally, everywhere I turn there are empty lots growing weeds, needing mowing or vicious wacking, inpinging ugliness onto what could otherwise be attractive and productive spaces. As a gardener I say if you see something, do something. If you see a weed - pull it or better still replace it with something beautiful. No one else owns our lives and the immediate as well as far environment in which we inhabit our lives. It's all in our hands and no one elses.
