What To Do When The Nation Is Under Attack From Within
July 3 2025
There is plenty of documentation (while it lasts) about the horrors of watching day by day the descent from democracy to authoritarian rule underway since January 20th 2025.
Today, with a July 4th deadline to meet his demands, the president got what he wanted and the Senate yesterday and the House today passed the immoral, not legal, but also not challenged budget reconciliation bill.
A tragic day in too many ways.
I keep hearing the statement "things will get increasingly worse" as this summer unfolds....but knowing it and watching it happen is challenging even to the most sturdy of us.
It's a question of majority and majority rules.
It's also a question of integrity, justice, compassion and doing the right thing....which 'the majority' is incapable of. They represent the ugly opposite of it.
The majority rule has tipped the scales of justice til it's toppled over and crashing down on us. Another very bad day in a constant stream of bad days since January 20th.
I will continue to hold the people in my heart and speak out for the documented, and the undocumented people among us. They are our neighbors, and they are part of the fabric of America that this administration is methodically tearing apart.
The transfer of enormous wealth to the billionaire class at the expense of the rest of us continues unabated and just got exponentially worse. The defunding of social programs to set up and fund a police state just got voted in.
One could go on and on at the tragedy confronting us.
But I won’t go on and on writing about it at this time. Instead I will do what I need to help myself cope through events beyond my control but within my concerned compassion.
Use my thought-energy to send love to those most impacted.
To send it to myself, and my loved ones, and everyone around me and everyone in the nation and in the world. Thought energy can go anywhere anytime. It is both beyond our control but is also within our grasp to utilize and transform that which needs healing.
I will go to the seaside - the Atlantic Ocean - and walk the sandy beach, breathing deep the salt air and feeling the warmth of a sun that is increasingly stronger as the climate warms and temperatures rise. It is a very beautiful summer day. I must not lose sight of that. I see beauty and that sustains me.
A pair of purple finches built a nest on the front porch light and the little ones have hatched and are a clump of indistinguishable fuzzy feathered things with five little beaks waiting to be fed.
New Life Waiting To Be Born (and has since been)
Before I head to the water I'm going to take a peek at the teeny tiny new baby birds waiting to be fed by a very busy momma and papa bird, while I ponder the beauty of a natural world where the vulnerable are protected and nourished and not hunted and harmed for wanting a better life.