Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Buffalo and Texas

Two particularly heinous shootings: a racially motivated shooting in Buffalo and a massacre at an elementary school in Texas.

An elementary school.

It's just so sickening.

It makes me want to hide my head in the sand. I mean, it's just impossible to comprehend.

And each of these, one today, the other ten days ago, are just the tip of the iceberg of American gun violence.

I don't know what to say or think or do. People like Mark Kelly, Gabby Giffords, and others are doing heroic work to address this issue. I admire them all. 

I went to my favorite place to find an image for this post (Amplifier). This artwork makes me feel better and reminds me that we all have a responsibility to reimagine the epidemic of American gun violence . . . and other difficult problems. It's our only choice. Not giving up.


Copied from The New Yorker: “Don’t listen to those who . . . say that this is an impossibly hard, or even particularly complex, problem,” Adam Gopnik wrote, a decade ago, about gun control. “Summoning the political will to make it happen may be hard. But there’s no doubt or ambiguity about what needs to be done.”

Sunday, May 15, 2022

A lunar eclipse

I am feeling insanely lucky. I got my RV situated late this afternoon on the edge of Utah's Little Grand Canyon in a northern section of the San Rafael Swell. I was sitting looking out at the canyon as the sun was setting. Suddenly the moon edged over the horizon, dead ahead, rising from the opposite canyon rim.

That was cool enough, but the lunar eclipse was just starting! As I type it's almost a complete eclipse and the moon is glowing red. It's just stunning.

Utah never fails to deliver . . . but this is really over the top.