We Live Here

The Wisconsin Supreme Court now has a new ideological make-up. The power struggles of the binary system shifted, but what in us has shifted? The downward spiraling of communication divides us. And our lack of unity only serves the powerful and the economically secure. Look around. How are we, the people, faring? Childhood innocence has been replaced with fear. Money for war is readily available but money for public necessities are stripped away. And the earth is treated as a commodity to be used, abused and pitched. 

We live here. 

We live in this melting pot that is now boiling over with violence and rage. The ideals and the dreams of living peacefully erode daily. Hopelessness is on the rise.

We live here. And how we live here matters. There are choices to be made, real choices that affect the way we live together. Do we want to live in a police state? Are we comfortable with the insecurity that has become our norm? Food, safety, clean air and water insecurities mount. Are we confronting these transgressions with empathy and compassion or are we accepting these as our lot? Do we assume someone will come to save us? Or are we ready to accept responsibility to turn this ship around?

From where I sit, solutions are simple. We’ve aligned with the left or the right, we’ve declared our faith and we’ve cut our path, often in disregard and distain to those around us. We’ve yet to discover our mutual humanity. We’ve yet to discover our own.

I saw a bumper sticker that read “Non-judgment day is coming”. Hallelu, may it be so.