We all know the turn. Its that point when everything shifts -often in a significant way. In the book where the protagonist is seemingly losing whatever battle has been waged but then some event occurs and that underdog is now moving ahead. Optimists look for the positive upswing, pessimists know there will always be a downswing.
In the ebb and flow of most things the turn occurs and when it is a dramatic turn well that’s something we can’t take our eyes away from.
Usually most of us will have an interest in some big world events that are going well or not, and at the same time some personal things, health, happiness, financial security, love, that will be going well or not, but the whole thing is a mixture of some aspects getting better and some getting worse. It keeps us on an even keel psychologically.
But every now and again a lot of stuff will turn so powerfully bad that its hard to see the elements that have remained positive.
Donald Trump has really shaken me. I am losing count of the new American States that Trump is musing about annexing: Canada – 51st , Greenland – 52nd , Panama Canal 53rd , Mexico 54th , Palestine with Gaza as 55th and West Bank as 56th or are they to be 55A and 55B?
And this of course to be part of the United States that are not really that “United”.
And how are these states to be treated – like they currently treat Puerto Rico? YIKES!
While this is going on down here on earth, the Musk Monster is musing about which planets should also be annexed.
And those employees at USAID who had dedicated their careers to trying to have a positive outreach for the U.S. are now about to be unemployed. The incremental inroads the United States has made in outreach in a treacherous world over decades was wiped out with the stroke of a sharpie. This is one of the organizations that kept events like 9/11 from happening much earlier. At this point every month of hardship created by actions like Israel and the U.S. destroying Gaza is pushing more young men to be prepared to die for the cause of fighting America.
So why am I going on with such a perspective that is all about the negative. Well, there is not much that is positive right now. As I age, I am increasingly seeing friends health change quickly. One day they are thriving and the next struggling to survive from one condition or another. Another big example is climate. In a relatively short period of time our planets health has swung from coping to perilous.
Oh, oh, I can feel a metaphor coming on……
THE TURN
Newfallen snow,
Lovingly rolled,
And assembled.
Now reduced
To a tophat
And carrot
In a pool of water.
But perhaps I have just tuned in to the movie at the wrong point. Things were bad, then they got worse, then another level of worse …… and now perhaps…… the turn.
Django