Waiting and Watching

Good Morning! You know, I just can’t post every day. I get asked about that all the time, but honestly I’m not smart enough to do that. I read the folks who not only post every day but even multiple times a day, and I just can’t do that. I need time to process things, and there is so much coming at us right now that it’s taking longer than usual now. It’s not that I am not thinking about things, and about you honestly. Just takes me a while!

OK so now we have bombed Iran. I don’t know if that is good or bad, effective or not effective, necessary or not. I do know that the way it was done is not OK with me though… it seems impulsive and reckless. Oh yes in typical American military fashion the raid went off without a hitch, and administration officials are quick to jump and with praise for dear leader, but these kinds of missions are meticulously planned for years—I would venture to guess dear leader had nothing to do with the plans. So yes, we have an awesome military.

But the implementation was not typical, and it underscored just how little this administration cares what we think. He did not consult with any allies except of course Israel and maybe Russia. He didn’t brief leaders of congress, he didn’t build a case with the American people for the necessity of this strike. Instead there was an impulsive and reckless feel to it. We didn’t give our consent. We don’t know what will happen next. Of course we are waiting for shoes to rain again, this time maybe from Iranian skies.

Regardless of the events and results of this raid though, we cannot take our attention off the continued destruction of our democracy, the snatching of our citizens, the faltering economy, the loss of rule of law. I would never have thought that what was happening in America was so terrible that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities could be seen as a necessary distraction, but maybe that is a part of it.

Many of us feel like we do not know what to do now. There is increasing frustration and anger on our side, I can feel it. Lawmakers prove themselves less and less effective as days go by. Pass a resolution? Start knowingly ineffective impeachment proceedings? Send a strong letter? The times call for so much more. The founders are turning over in their graves…..We don’t know what our path is right now, but I honestly feel that we will find it. We will figure out how much tea we have to throw into the harbor, how to flex our economic power, our people power. Keep thinking and searching and staying together. Keep building community and being creative. Keep walking, the path will appear.