Ramblings

Things are changing. Do you feel it, do you sense the heavy stumbling, and slowing of the hearts while the rage builds up? The pace is quickening. There's a nation filled with lost souls and so many challenges. Self-importance, entitlement, anger and emptiness. It is all there. Still beats the good...it just needs to be surrounded and joined...it needs to be prayed over and cheered on. We used to could have disagreements and not have it end in violence or insults.

Was there ever a place in time where people were good to each other? I realize there actually were no "good old days" because during every era or period someone was treated unfairly beyond anything our minds can wrap around. Ignorance and hatred has always been present, but good showed up bigger and better. Prosperity has never truly been shared by all and enough has never meant plenty to go around except to "the some" - ask someone who is wondering with a stomach numb from rumbling how their day is going.

I go to work daily and come home drained. I have some kids who cannot read but are getting passed on because they cannot be failed. Yes, I said we are not allowed to fail them, the system says so... So, I watch as they are shuffled through a system that is supposed to strengthen them; but will eventually break them and us all. This system that won't let us fail them is failing them in epic proportions and every educator who wanted to make a positive difference in a child's life.

There are so many places we need to set to restart. Where we need to come together as if our lives depend on it - because frankly, it does. I don't like to speak of doom or look at the cup as half empty, it really isn't my nature. But...it's midnight in our deepest of winters, we are whistlin' past the graveyard and the bucket we are carrying has got a hole in it and we couldn't buy a vowel - not even if we wanted to.

Our future depends upon how we treat others in the now. Our future depends on decisions being made by people that have not got a clue on what they are speaking of because frankly they can't see from their view. Whether it's the "I don't give a damn glass - it is all about me" from which they hide behind or the whatever in their "Nor do I care" dismissive attitude. Accountability needs to be reinstated. Integrity needs to be dusted off. Kindness, humility, y'all come on out too. I know y'all are there!

We are in a battle zone...where we are not safe in our streets...the ones that lead right to our front door. We need to pump the brakes when we cannot be civil to each other in traffic. We have fallen to the point of where common sense and common courtesies are so far back in our rearview mirrors that some of us cannot be decent. Well, let me restate that...where some of us refuse the choice to be decent. Violence is not supposed to be a way of life...one cannot breathe, nor let alone see with their head buried in the sand or covered in slung mud.

Nobody owes us anything...our lives are what we make them and as I age, I cannot cry over the wasted time I spent - because when I give pause to think where all those years went and just how dang fast they sailed - there isn't anything that I can do to recapture that time...but I can do different with what precious moments that I do have left. I am heartbroken but praying for a miracle...because they can and do happen.

I am a true-blue die-hard Houston Texans fan, and 22 had us at the bottom of the barrel. This year the so called "experts"- you know the ones who can't do what they are talking about said that with a Rookie Coach, QB and players that this team was no threat. Something amazing happened...they stumbled, but they didn't fall... they got their footing and then the mindset of "why not us"? It became their motto. Glorious. "Why not us?"

In this moment in our lives, why can't we be the people who change the course of the path we are on? Why not us?