We Can't Get There From Here
A couple of months back I posted my first blog in a long ass time. It came from a place of frustration, anger, hope, and timid optimism that maybe, just maybe, it might be possible to reclaim our sanity and return to simpler times. Then, the world fell apart. We were forced, not by our government, but by a microscopic virus, into our homes where we stayed, frightened at first because of the unknown, and the catastrophic toll it had the potential to wreak and the lives it could take. But as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, social media was alive with the unrest felt by many. Fear had given way to anger and skepticism, and finally full out blatant rebellion against, of all things - science. Americans had taken a pandemic that had proven itself deadly the world over and turned it into a political argument. Because that's what we do nowadays. We draw lines in the imaginary sand and bash one another and call names and insult one another's inte...