Trying To Look Forward

It's been a while, right?  

I mean, since I've posted anything here, right?

But even with all of the madness around us these past few month this year, the world has not stopped spinning.

I shake my head daily.

Try not to look at the gloomy news, but let's be honest, it's too hard not to look when they are all important issues.  It's overwhelming, and that's putting it mildly.

I try to look ahead to a positive future.

A future where my brown skinned grandchildren won't even have to consider the color or their skin when they step out of their door to go play a game of basketball at the local rec. center.  Take a bike ride to play at a friend's house, walk to school(should that ever be allowed again), have a picnic or go bird watching in a park without being harassed.  These simple pleasures are what I wish for them.

And how about a former President who can't even get his portrait hung on a White House wall without it being an issue for the current man who lives there??

Our eldest grandchild can't even experience a normal high school graduation this year or make a memory of her senior prom.  Will she even have a normal university experience?  Will that learning be online as well?

My husband and I are still staying away from other people, due to our age and some health issues, but we will get through all of this madness much better off than many others, but still.... it does not stop us from worrying about others.

To take my mind away from dwelling on all of the negative, my husband helped me hang drop cloth curtains in our screened porch.  He'll tell you that he got 'Huckleberry'd into it'.  AND he's right.  He did.  I am guilty of making him do much of the work, but he is totally enjoying that the porch is a bit cooler temperature-wise this year and sits out there much more than he has in previous years.  If your porch is hot due to late afternoon sun from the west beating in, then I highly recommend doing this to your porch.  Get your husband to help you!  LOL

 We celebrated Memorial Day in a quiet way.  Hung some red, white and blue buntings on the porch and stuck small flags in all of the planters on the porch.  It looked festive, but it was for our eyes only since Covid kept us from inviting friends.  BUT, my husband is a veteran, so it's his day and I make it special for him despite not having any guests. We grilled burgers and hot dogs and I made potato salad, which was plenty of summertime food for the two of us to enjoy.

(Buntings are from Plow and Hearth and they are superb quality)

Our wisteria on the trellis has bloomed, a sight that always takes my breath away, and I am already looking forward to seeing them again next year.

Next year.  Yes, we always have that to look forward to, don't we?

Thanks for stopping by.

Empires Do Crumble

The world keeps spinning, doesn't it.

With all of the mind boggling photos from Europe this past week. refugees with no place to go, and yet they continue to flood Europe with the hope of homes, jobs and futures that will bring comfort to them and their children... but I truly have to ask myself if these things will happen for them; if they will find what they need in this world  in order to simply survive.

There simply cannot be enough housing, food and jobs for Europe to sustain ALL of these people in dire need, and although numerous countries have seen fit to open their borders for those who have had no choice but to flee their homelands, I worry for all of Europe and what these crowded conditions will end up doing to people once they are all thrown together, because when there are too many people with such varied ethnic ways, and religious ideologies, too many going without their daily needs being met, conditions become heated, volatile. and violence breaks out.

The United States has now said that they will take 10,000 refugees.

A mere drop in the bucket of need considering millions are leaving Syria and the surrounding nations, unable to eek out a life of comfort; we all need to ask ourselves what WE would do if subjected to the war torn ways and violence that ISIS has brought to their land.

The entire world it would seem, has gone mad, brought upon by religious fanaticism, the need for power by madmen, and most of all greed.  We see the greed all around us here in the U.S., and at times I wonder how long it will be before our country turns to fanatical ways. people who are SICK of being taken for a ride by a corrupt government bought and paid for by Corporations greed. Will we, one day rise up against it all? Would a group of people who are sick of it all simply bring our government and country to it's knees?

Could we become refugees?

Take a look at history.

Empires do crumble.