HOPE

Can we still dare to hope this mess of a planet can every get well again?

Many of us discuss in soft or loud voices, how polarized, shrill and dismaying life has become.

But the earth has always been a stage of strife.

It’s been much worse. And it’s had its moments of grace.

But consistently, planetary on-goings are shrill. If not horrific.

Darkness. Threat of nuclear war. Rampant infertility. Politification of medicine. Brain…