I avoid watching the news now. Powerful people are raining senseless destruction and death on innocents in Gaza and Ukraine. They do not care that our first responsibility is to our children, and those little innocents are maimed, crushed, buried under rubble by the forces of evil. Our leaders will not take meaningful action to turn the tide against an oncoming climate crisis because they fear the wrath of the those powerful people who profit from continuing to feed the crisis. We allow the greedy to treat housing as lucrative investment vehicles while the poor starve and shiver in makeshift homeless encampments. I can't solve all these problems, but I do what I can to support and advocate. Even though I feel a sense of helplessness in the face of so much evil and injustice, I cannot turn my face away. Why, then, do I still have such a sense of sheer joy when I am outside walking among the sights and sounds of nature?
I avoid watching the news now. Powerful people are raining senseless destruction and death on innocents in Gaza and Ukraine. They do not care that our first responsibility is to our children, and those little innocents are maimed, crushed, buried under rubble by the forces of evil. Our leaders will not take meaningful action to turn the tide against an oncoming climate crisis because they fear the wrath of the those powerful people who profit from continuing to feed the crisis. We allow the greedy to treat housing as lucrative investment vehicles while the poor starve and shiver in makeshift homeless encampments. I can't solve all these problems, but I do what I can to support and advocate. Even though I feel a sense of helplessness in the face of so much evil and injustice, I cannot turn my face away. Why, then, do I still have such a sense of sheer joy when I am outside walking among the sights and sounds of nature?