Blue sky and trees...one of my favorite views.
We're having none of that right now - but I look forward to it.
People have complained this year that there's too much rain and grey skies.
Meanwhile, I've been chanting "Snow in the Mountains, Rain down here" repeatedly. In the winter of 2015/2016 it seemed we had low levels of snow and rain and I worried we'd run out of good drinking water. My chanting seems to have worked.
Donald Trump has been our President for 100 days.
It's exhausting.
I read about the plans and decisions he's making and they seem like a step backward to a time when working people are treated like second class citizens who serve the wealthy.
But, his supporters (most of them working people I thought) still like what he's doing. They aren't disappointed.
It seems like the Reagan years again, except without the sense of order and calm.
Donald Trump doesn't seem to mind making hypocritical statements. One year he hates that Barack Obama goes golfing once or twice, and the next year he goes golfing every weekend, but it's fine.
I can't get past that double standard.
Which is a discovery I've made about myself. I get stuck when things don't make sense.
I have a hard time moving forward in a conversation if it starts out with a statement that doesn't make sense to me.
I have to let it go - PEOPLE, in general, don't always make sense; they sometimes make less than rational decisions.
I haven't been writing much on this blog because the Trump administration is disheartening. They make decisions that are "unbelievable" to me. But, because they're happening I have to believe them.
I am overwhelmed with a feeling of powerlessness to do anything meaningful to change the situation, so I retreat. (I definitely feel bad about it - there are small things I can do, I just don't do them).
Vermont Public Radio - Dartmouth Prof on Trump's 100 Days: 'We Need Both Parties' defending our norms
NPR - White House Touts 'Historic' 28 Laws Signed By Trump, But What Are They?
Today there are climate marches across the country. Trump has put national monuments (land set aside for the public), he's allowing drilling on the coastal waters, he's put a man in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency who doesn't believe climate change has anything to do with human activity and who has sued the EPA 19 (?) times.
CNN - EPA removes climate change information from website
99 Days in 99 Seconds from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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