Hope Missing In Action

  While the world is at such unrest, I’m finding it hard to feel hopeful about anything. So unlike me. Even my writing life seems flat murmuring, what’s the use…no one cares.

  Again, so unlike me.

  It’s as if Pollyanna got hit over the head.

  Between the House of Representatives fighting like cats, and the war between Iran and Israel, and now Bobby Kennedy Jr. making politics more of a mess, as a plain, patriotic American girl, I’m properly bewildered.

  What happened to integrity in our leaders? There’s no one to look up to anymore.

  I ask myself many times a day, what will be?

  It’s bad enough for me, but what about our children in school, like my little 4 year-old neighbor who just entered first grade? What will he learn now? How to fire a gun at close range? What to do in case of a bomb dropping in his art class?

 What will he dress up as on Halloween?

 A Navy SEAL? An Urban Guerrilla? Kevin McCarthy?

 Last Halloween a Trump or Biden mask was funny, but not this year.

 Nothing is funny.

 Absolutely nothing. 

  SB