Searching For Hope

I’m trying to keep hope alive.  It’s not easy to be honest   Some legislators, news people and commentators are suggesting that the attack was well coordinated   There is also a report that the Capitol police were warned ahead of time. They obviously didn’t take it seriously OR they chose NOT to take heed OR, even worse, some were complicit   We have a problem in this country. I don’t know how this gets better.  I hope we can, but I’m afraid of the next demagogue. All I can do is hope and remember the words of one of my favorite authors, James Lee Burke:

The green republic is still out there, the wheat 

fields waving, the dust clouds blowing, our 

mountains and diamond deserts and Gulf Stream 

waters a votive gift that belongs to us all.And the 

men who break in and steal by night, who spread 

self-doubt and fear and acrimony, will eventually 

fall by the wayside and be unremembered ciphers 

that disappear like scraps of newspaper in our 

rearview mirror."

"And that's the way our Manichean tale ends, on a 

summer night in the land of the free and the home 

of the brae, trapped between vineyards and the 

sea and the souls of migrants who come with dust 

and go with wind, all of us twirling among young 

people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell 

clanging without stop in a Spanish Mission.

Roll on, Woody.”