Choosing to ignore negativity is extremely difficult in the sense that, on occasion, you must become deaf and blind to the people around you who choose to promote negativity as a bi-product of breathing. This is made more difficult when the people in question are your family and thus largely inescapable… and lazy. Yet I persevere. I believe in hope. For example, I hope I can figure out the deeper WHY in this current novel I am writing and get back to the page with a sense of purpose. Honestly, the Arbery and Rittenhouse cases have highlighted the absolute sadness and shape of the law in a way that permeates my purpose for the latest work. In truth, it is even more sad to note that I am calling these cases by the names I am calling them. Arbery was the victim. I don’t know the names of the defendants and the truth of that is their names are not being treated as the focus. In fact, most articles fail to name the defendants in the first paragraph. You gotta read a bit to hear who they are. The focus is that an unarmed black man was chased and killed in pursuit of what these vigilantes are calling self-defense in the process of a citizens arrest. For what? Because he was running and may have looked to them like someone who illegally entered a building worksite? The Rittenhouse case often fails to name the victims in the first paragraph of reports. Why? No clue other than the thought of who the focus is on–the shooter in this case. The focus is always on the person we are meant to be polarized by. The Arbery case is about a dead black man. The Rittenhouse case is about a young vigilante.
I’m wandering. That means I might as well lead into…
Some Thoughts:
- The print in this default mode is so bloody small that I have no choice but to increase screen size to see most days. I hate that. I hate it being a part of getting old.
- Going to start the Turkey process tomorrow. I’m excited.