What's It Like Up There

The last day of November. I hadn't managed to write my blog for this month - and the reason? I have been too sad. Yes, me! Not like me at all. But, as I read the election news, read about the American fiasco, read about the cruelty of humankind - to other humans and to animals - I despaired. I can't put out there thoughts which will make people sad. That's not what I mean to do. I don't want to be a writer if I can't make the reader's heart glad. It isn't bad to provoke thought but it seems very negative to leave someone with a sense of despondency.

I have thought about it though - and decided to write a little bit about things which I have found troubling over the last month - because you may have found them troubling too - and perhaps a problem shared is a problem halved.
The election. How does one make sense of it? There seems to be duplicity, outright lies and character defamation the like of which we've never seen before. Call this politics? It is…