There is outrageous news from the W.H. every day. It’s hard to keep up, analyze, rationalize, or find a sane reaction to everything as it happens. Life is too precious to have it manipulated for sport. I need to see some sanity from people in positions of power. Our elected leaders need to do something. We who are waiting and watching will do what we can when we have a sensible task. We willingly gather with those who protest when there is a location and a schedule. 

It’s fortunate that not all news is monitored and censored. I expect that to change, but for now we can get information. I’ve long objected to censorship and book-banning. If schools are teaching students to think and analyze what they read, teachers are doing their jobs and students can learn discernment. It was part of my education and was encouraged without being forced on me. I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember. Good fiction can distract from day to day outrages in the news.

I read recently that Denmark has Empathy as a part of their school curriculum. I’m not totally sure how that works, but as a concept it has appeal. Are situations presented for student reactions? I can see flaws in that approach as it may be misdirected.

I’m encouraged by some who have had enough of the strange directives with no clear purpose except to misdirect and destroy the necessary: scientific enquiry, the arts, a path to higher education, libraries. All the things that make us human are in jeopardy.