Hope

 Hi, everyone (or anyone who might be reading this blog),

 After quite some time, I am able to start posting again. It’s been an interesting and sometimes scary interlude, to say the least, between the last post and today’s.

Let’s start with how Covid-19 has pretty much turned the world upside down even more than it was when the pandemic hit in late 2019 and early 2020, lasting through 2021 and still going on (the mutated variants) with intermittent spikes in 2022-23).

There are more wars (how is that even possible), the cost of living is beyond exorbitant (as if it wasn’t already before Covid), lack of affordable housing and regular healthcare are slowly (or not so slowly) trying to finish what the pandemic started, and climate crises happening all over the world are literally earth shattering.

Billionaires are competing to build spaceships to evacuate to Mars (abandoning the rest of us, nice guys that they are) instead of using their resources to create a better world here on Earth now and in the future. Megalomaniacs in governments and private corporations are frantically trying to maintain their power structures, destroying everything decent in their wake.

So why do I believe there’s hope for humankind? Because:

1) people are still helping each other, no matter what country, culture, or creed

2) I see love being stronger than hate, especially when challenged by hateful rhetoric or actions against it

3) today’s youth are not buying into the narrative of corporate culture that supports the destruction of the planet 

So while everything seems to be going to hell in a hand basket, there’s still hope and hope brings courage, strength, and resilience to outweigh outlast and outrun all the negative forces that threaten our planet and our lives today. When all is lost…there’s still hope. You just have to drill down to your core and find it.

Here’s to everyone’s health and happiness.

Cheers,

Mimi