In all of the flurry of vacationing, i forgot to mention that my kids built a castle and a dragon for the library. Our library had an end-of-summer celebration, and Houston and Katrina came to work with me to take part. It was kind of a lame celebration - just cookies and juice and a table filled with cardboard, tin foil, and duct tape. One of the girls i work with was all, "You should build a castle!" and my kids were like, "Challenge accepted!" And then they spent the rest of my shift building a fairly awesome castle.
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This is not a political blog, and i almost never post anything about politics or news, both because this is mostly a blog about my family and what we're up to, and because what i have to say is never as smart as what other people are saying. But it feels like the world - and America, especially - is just kind of falling apart right now, and that affects my family. So.
I am horrified by what is going on in this country. My whole life, i've learned about Nazi Germany and how terrible all of those Nazis were, and it was always implied that that could never happen again, especially here. And yet, here we are, with white supremacists marching around with torches, doing Nazi salutes and spewing Nazi-esque language, and they're getting away with it. Large crowds and huge numbers of Americans think they have the right idea.
And it feels like America is just broken enough that i can't even imagine how anything will ever be okay again. How can this much hate just ... get fixed? People aren't going to just suddenly stop hating, right? And i know that the answer is that love just has to be bigger than the hate, and that ultimately love wins, and i am trying to love people with all of my might, but it just feels a little bit hopeless right now. And that's where i am.
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