light pushes through

seamless dark;

as thunder echoes

 hidden deep within

a safe oval of warms;

life emerges

 Wow my last post was 2019 ... what a gap!

So I returned from Israel/Rome in November of 2019 ... and then....

COVID hit!  My daughter, my granddaughter, her three kids and her husband, my other granddaughter, her boyfriend, not her kids, but she was sick three times.  My son and his family avoided it, got vaccine.  We got vaccine, didn't get sick.  granddaughters got vaccine and stopped getting sick.

Las Vegas went dark.  Most of the casinos closed temporarily.  Some still haven't reopened.  Many here survived on federal money and friends and family.  Most of the buffets are still closed, permanently.  We wore masks.  We bought masks, we donated masks, we washed masks, we forgot them and had to go back to the car to get them.  People complained about wearing them and others complained because not everyone wore one.  Crime increased, especially crimes against others.  Most people were frustrated and angry with no place to put the anger.

Donald Trump lost the election and Joe Biden became president.  Vaccines became more available and fewer people started to get sick with COVID.  Some protested against Asians, some violently and some verbally.  There were crimes against people of color by the police.  The police were put under a magnifying glass, some come through clean, others not so clean.  Many became disillusioned with freedom and the American Way.  They seemed to forget that every country is made up of people.  Some want to uphold and obey the law; others, not so much.  

Putin, in Russie decided that he wanted the Ukraine and so stepped in and started bombing it into submission.  The Ukrainians did not surrender, and NATO began warning Russia/Putin of potential war crimes.  Putin insisted he was just taking back what was part of Russia. The neighboring countries are nervous and the US and allies began supplying the Ukraine with weapons, stopping short of stepping in to begin World War III.  The outcome is undecided.

The world decided that perhaps Global Warming was a real threat and began taking steps to reverse the damage to the World's environment.  It may be too late to do that and I don't believe a band aid is going to do much good at this point.  The Las Vegas Valley in Nevada, in the USA, is now considered an arid climate and Lake Mead, which provides most of the water for the Valley is 150' lower than the 1990's, due to a severe drought.  Earthquakes, major storms, unusual heat and cold, tornado's, hurricanes, typhoons, floods, drought, firestorms, and plagues of locusts and disease are the new norm.

This synopsis doesn't cover all of the trouble that is falling onto planet earth, but it's a decent microcosm of our problems, now compounded by an increase in the cost of food and fuel and more.  What is happening here?  I have answers but those who want to know already know the answers and the rest don't really want to know.

storms and disease ramp up

their assault on the earth;

as the skies weep