~a column by Colleen O’Brien
The news of the day is too sickening for me to write about this week – I’m nauseated by ICE and their Gestapo antics, by the leader of our country for so many ways I don’t have the energy today to begin to list them, by the former Democratic leaders who seem to have disappeared into the Peanuts cartoon characterization of adults whining in the background “wah-wah, wah-wah-wah-wah,” by the Congress instituted 236 years ago to maintain citizens’ freedoms.
The main problem is that we are human; therefore, we’re going to mess it up. We are a contrary species, as in, we are all capable of:
Good and evil; Hope and despair; Love and hate; Forgiveness and revenge; Venturing forth and staying put; The urge to wholeness and the pull to fragmentation; Acceptance and rejection; Commitment and freedom; Community and solitude; Intimacy and autonomy; Doing and being; Consciousness and unconsciousness; and Masculine and feminine.
We are repeatedly shocked by the behavior of our leaders, our law enforcement, our neighbors, our family, ourselves because at some point even we behave contrary to how we think we should.
There is no hope for us except when we remember to operate our good, hopeful, loving, forgiving, accepting sides. Iffy. We might as well go to the movies.
