i am on leave for a week starting next tuesday. that takes care of immediate problems.

the new wall i am bouncing my head against is the widely-shared inability to come out of the past, to hope for future by looking at what's been done and to stop painting every reality several shades darker.

when will people learn to dream?

and as part of a team that trying to act out its own brand of activism, it's especially frustrating. more so, when the only effective solution seems to be to catch hold of people by the scruff of their necks and order them to hope, to dream, to be angry, to be active and failing all of that, to think.

knee-jerk reactions, smart counterpoints, fudging facts and all that shit is tiring. as adults, they do owe themselves the mental exercise. it seems like a dying art. winning an argument is not the same thing as engaging with the topic being debated.