June was a long month

This is a post to catch up, starting with a power outage that sent me to a hotel for two luxurious days! All the power people from across the country had contracted so many rooms that the only option was a pricy room downtown, but it was heaven!  Now Houston is going through the same hell we did.

Next on our family agenda was hammering out all the details involved in getting my youngest granddaughter off to college this coming fall. It is certainly more complicated than it was for me way back in 1960. Our student elected an out-of- state school, and with her good grades and hard work, nobody had the courage to argue with her (even though there are umpteen cheaper options here in Texas.)

This household is a busy one. My daughter and my oldest granddaughter worked 12-hour days at the polls during primary runoffs. Despite my apprehension they will work in the fall election as well. 

And now, political nightmares abound

This family is politically astute.  The jibber-jabber since the shocking debate has many of us on edge. I am angry at the people who protected our president from the public, putting us in this position. I knew, of course, there were pundits calling the president feeble and incapable of completing sentences. However, those particular people lied about so many other facts, I discounted anything coming from those sources. So yes, people are shocked. His denial and defense, saying he was selected by primary voters, doesn’t account for the fact that there was no other choice, nor available information we obviously needed. The situation is horrifying.

The wisdom from my metaphysical prognosticators assures us that however it turns out, we will be okay. They have all said 2024 was going to be a year with major changes. In fact, one said clearly that sometimes a situation has to get really bad in order to get the attention needed to effect overhauling a system that doesn’t work.

We know far too many people are apathetic when it comes to politics. Millions of eligible voters don’t bother to vote. My son is one of them. He thinks it doesn’t matter. But he has a good job with a good salary and has no understanding that this can change! 

I tried to explain there are factions who would like to eliminate minimum wage laws and many other protections he takes for granted. Citizens no longer have any understanding of civics and how our government has been working under the present system. 

As a consequence, greedy people have found ways to take advantage of this apathy. The inequities and existing chaos have resulted from a disinterested and largely uneducated citizenry. We know this, and see evidence every day.

Do you realize how many members of Congress received COVID recovery money that they were hardly qualified for? Their stock trades that are clearly because of inside information? And now we have Supreme Court members who don’t recuse from cases where they have an interest?!

All this must change and probably will at some point. It’s unlikely to happen in my lifetime. No one now in office will vote for term limits or to eliminate stock trades or dark money or lobbying. (Maybe Senator Whitehouse.)

We are now in the hottest summer we have experienced so far and surely this will accelerate. Money interests have blocked real efforts to ameliorate the situation. 

We can’t say we were not warned, over and over. 

So maybe the prognosticators are correct and we will see the worst of possible scenarios before change becomes the only choice humans have.

Buckle up. Meditate. Enjoy your loved ones and live in gratitude for anything you have today.