By the time this week's column goes to print, I predict the following: everyone will be sick to death of the American election results.
The day after the election, I myself struggled with the news that our neighbours to the south chose a grabby, orange, small-handed idiot as their next president and my Facebook newsfeed was filled with like-minded sentiments from my similarly left-leaning friends.
Utter devastation mixed with fury seemed to be the theme of these past few weeks.
In our social lives, we tend to surround ourselves with like-minded people, so much in fact that when a group of people rise up to reject an entire governmental system in seeming support of a racist, homophobic, sexist, climate change denier, the other-side is shocked, appalled and flabbergasted.
I have no answers. I don't understand and I hope that it will not be as bad as I fear. So what to do then in the wake of this insanity?
We will continue to teach our children to be kind and inclusive.We will continue to reach out to our community and our fellow people in sympathy and compassion. We will learn to become more self-sufficient in our daily lives including learning to better grow and preserve our own food. We will be more. We will help and volunteer in our own community. We will be artists. We will write and draw and paint and make music. We will sew. We will knit and crochet. We will make gifts for Christmas. We will buy less and save more. We will give of ourselves unto others because we can.
We started in our house this week by planting garlic for next year. It is November and I was able to plant garlic and the soil was loose and warm.
The record temperatures that we have been having should be a clear indicator that something is very wrong with our world.My household is one drop in the bucket but we will do the best we can to help the world heal this horrible wound.
In the meantime, remember kindness and compassion.
