End of the Drought

It's been a while since I signed on to this blog. I no longer live in the drought stricken town. I no longer live with the same people, although I am in daily telephone contact. The rains have come down, filling the nearby lakes, watering the gardens and blooming trees. Life has become gentler, kinder, less stressful.

Everything has changed except me. I still need to lose weight. I still struggle to accept my physical limitations. I still don't have a clue why the wicked, the greedy, the mean-spirited, the cruel and the selfish do prosper, year after year.

On CNN Live, Sarah Palin's shrill voice pierces the airwaves, ranting on and on about the passage of the health care bill. Sarah Palin and her family have health care. So she wants to deny others what she already has and surely assumes it is her right to have? Her supporters cheer as she screeches out her jingoistic rhetoric, twisting her words to push their hate and fear buttons. I bet these supporters all have health care too. Not to mention the freedom from want that many of them take for granted.

For some it's just their nature to want to keep what they have, and to resent even the idea of sharing anything with others perceived as unworthy. The poor, the powerless, even the uninsured. Who have surely arrived at their bottom rung status because they are somehow morally defective, lazy, feckless.

Some must be drug to the well of compassion kicking and screaming. So be it.