"still, when I think of the road we're traveling on I wonder what's gone wrong"...Paul Simon's words from another time...America...she's older and fractured...in dire need of repair and rehab...where's the skilled surgeon...the compassionate treatment team...when can she rest...she's like a nurse in a covid wing in the deep south...pulled in so many different directions...sad, because she knows she will lose some patients...angry, because it didn't have to be that way...and hope is just a frayed thread holding her together...I thought about this nation many times in the past few weeks...as I often do around July 4th...for every beautiful color that lit the night in fireworks...there were cherry bombs and worse that scared animals to death...literally...what the hell does that have to do with us as a nation...or maybe it's the most accurate...we seek to recreate that which is the loudest and ugliest...have we truly become the Ugly Americans?...what exactly can lessen the deep chasm that has formed...it splinters and grows as respect withers in a vacuum...how we move forward...even if we fail...is not etched in stone...it is a series of steps we take as a nation...at times one step forward, two steps back...but always moving forward...together...no one left behind...giving this nation...America...the support she needs...and in turn...hopefully getting what we need...what we deserve...
