Hope: twice in one day our daughter, completely unprompted and unprovoked, blew my mind. First in the home depot while we walked by the toilet aisle on the way to get screws to fix the deck gate. Her: composting toilets? they compost your poop? Me: yep Her: can we get one? Me: I don't think it will be equally appreciated by everyone in the house. Her: huh? Me: ask mom.
second, while riding in the car with the family and my mother a roadgoing monster passed us. Her: Was that a hummer? Me: it certainly was. Grandma: Do you like hummers? Her: No, they waste gas and pollute the environment.
Faith: Yesterday I saw the first buds of the potatoes pushing through the soil. I'll say it again, I'm an anxious person, and I'm sure by now I've spent hours staring at that side of the garden. Being my first time with spuds I was apprehensive. Did I plant to deep too shallow? upside down? was the soil to dry? too wet? Anyhow, as of this morning, about 6 of the 50 or so have completely pushed their leaves up through. As Tyler Durden would say, stop trying to control everything and just let go.
Love: Yesterday my brother shipped off to 29 palms california for 2 months training, after that, iraq. The family event at the reserve depot was remarkably different from the first deployment 4 years ago, you could read it on the faces of everyone there. The trust is gone. The trust in safety, in the rightness of the mission, in the leadership. Gone. The most unsustainable, unrenewable action a government can enact, wanton destruction of participant and bystander alike, the squandering of resources, starving the needy to feed an all consuming beast, and somehow, by not spending every breath trying to avert it, are complicit in the crime. No More.
Anger is not sustainable, Faith, Hope and Love are.
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