Diary 336

Thursday, February 18th

Human beings never cease to astonish me. The mars Rover has just touched down on the red planet, and is sending back all kinds of information. On the other side of the equation winter storms have hit Texas, creating sustained power outages and cracking water pipes – leaving many communities with any drinking water. And let’s not forget Flint, Michigan.

We tend, all of us, to focus on the wrong things in a similar fashion. We worry about losing jobs in the fossil fuel industry and fail to think about climate chaos. We focus on Wall Street’s profits and fail to note the outrageous long-term cost of increasing homelessness or poor schools. We worry about what our neighbors think of us and we don’t consider what it is our souls need.