What to expect on a day like today
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I Can’t Keep Quiet
Tomorrow is election day. And I’m tired. Deeply tired. Tired of arguing, tired of fighting. Tired of screaming about things I shouldn’t have to scream about. I just want to lie down. For a moment, for any amount of time just to catch my breath.
Iceberg, Right Ahead!
I feel like we are all Jack and Rose on the stern of the Titanic as it is about to sink into the sea. We cling to the rail as tight as we can and watch the carnage below. We catch the eye of another scared passenger and wonder how we got here. Just a short while earlier we thought…
Angry America
To be blunt, I am tired of hearing how Black Lives Matter and Antifa are terrorist organizations trying to destroy America. If you tell me that then I instantly know you have no clue what you are talking about. And no, for those already getting triggered by this, I am not saying anyone who criticizes Black Lives Matter is wrong.…
The American Dream?
The American Dream has been promised to us long before our country was even created. All the way back in 1630, John Winthrop gave his famous City Upon a Hill sermon, promising a land where everyone could prosper. 146 years later our forefathers stated in the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal with the right to life,…
The Whole World Is Watching
We have been stripped bare. The emperor wearing our new clothes. The curtain has been thrown open revealing the truth and we are not the great and powerful Oz. The shining city upon a hill has dimmed and buckled under its own weight. And the whole world is watching. The whole world is watching as the greatest nation on the…
March
If you’re angry at the protesters. If you’re tired of seeing it in the news. If you’re annoyed and frustrated and upset that this is still going on…..then try, for maybe the first time, to UNDERSTAND WHY THERE ARE PROTESTS. Breonna Taylor was killed, in the middle of the night, in a hail of gunfire and the only charges that…