Amazing — painfully so—how this applies to the US also.

Looking ahead at the choices provided—as the country goes into it's every-four-year entertainment, the Live-Action-Role-Playing game called voting—hope is pretty hard to muster up.

( "Democracy" has been reduced to the talking point used by the "reprsentative of the people" (hah!) to sell continued funding for spreading our military all over the planet. Pretend as they will in the media, it is the US that is at war with Russia (not Ukraine—no matter what the 24/7 Zelenskyy show acts out with false bravado) as is the US funding the continuing genocide in Gaza. Oops. I've digressed.)

Thanks for sharing these stories from your life.