Just when I was getting depressed from all the bad news everywhere, the rain has returned with a vengeance to Potlatch. Right now it is 2 pm and dark as night outside, just as it seems to be for people in Afghanistan and those among us grappling with the urgent issues of the Covid-19 pandemic and the myriad of unsettled political issues.<\/p>\n
Here the rain is pounding on the tin roof and running wild down the roads washing the gravel off into the woods. I\u2019ve been unable to get outside to plant the oakleaf hydrangea and crepe myrtle I recently bought for the garden. And so it seems to go, day after day, with the sun occasionally bursting through only to be replaced with more darkness and rain. Whatever happened to our wonderful summers; could it be climate change?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m with most of you complaining that the news is always bad. Like you I would like to drop out and hide until the sun comes out and there is some good news to report. Much of what I read and the people I talk with decry our \u201csick\u201d politics. Increasingly I question myself about what I have learned the many years I\u2019ve been in this world. Even more I\u2019m disappointed in those who seem to attack most conventional wisdom, satisfied that they know best and cocksure that they are always right. One thing I do know is that there has been a change for the worse in politics with no end in sight for the self-serving and diabolical partisanship that grips us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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