Oh, Too Bad!

My, my, tsk, tsk! Whatever shall we do about this?

Of course, I’m speaking of the rest of our lives. What shall we do? What is our next step?

There are many who wonder these thoughts, these questions. Yet we will do what we always have done – move on with the rest of our lives, doing the next thing – whatever that is – and living life one day at a time. As the minutes, hours and days pass, weeks, months and years add up. Looking back on that passage of time we realize we have done just what we said – living our lives.

That’s what news junkies often forget. They are wrapped up with the news of the day as it unfolds, or as talking heads speak of it. Panels on this subject, panels on that topic, yet it is boringly much the same. Today that is trump. Yesterday it was trump. I suspect tomorrow will be trump.

He wants it that way.

So we must get back on track and continue living our lives. We will still inhabit the same world as the trumpster, but we won’t let that affect us. Time will heal this plague. Just watch us do that!

In the meantime we have work to do. We have tasks that add up to entire issues of vital importance. Research continues. Books are written. Classes are taught. Roads are built and so are school buildings. Bridges and dams, too. The world goes on about its business. Decisions are made and resources are found and assigned their roles. Projects are engineered and constructed.

Life goes on.

Babies are born. People die. People work and build careers focused on their passions and interests. We find each other and form families. We invent new things and speak fresh thoughts. The brains of all of us chug along doing good works. In time we note what has been created and become our culture, our society and our future.

This is the way of the world. Our tribe continues to survive. Tribes meet each other, get along, cooperate on needed projects, and swell our collective social order and cultures. We grow. We morph into whatever we will become.

And that is exciting. Leaders lead until there are no or too few followers. And we find what matters most to us and tend to those matters. We don’t need a leader to tell us that. We inform ourselves.

The more free we are to consider the world around us, the better we are to invent what is needed next. And we do. And life goes on.

Tend to your own garden, my friends. The crop you reap belongs to you and will feed your tribe.

That’s as it should be.

June 5, 2018