Sometimes it’s difficult to ‘focus on only what you can control’ when the horrors of what happened this past weekend in Charlottesville is so blatantly hateful and tragic.
Sometimes it’s difficult to ‘focus on only what you can control’ when we’ve got a Napoleon-complex President who took three whole days to come out in condemnation of neo-nazis and white-supremacist; reading from a teleprompter reluctantly as if he’s taken hostage and forced to read a ransom note on video.
Sometimes it’s difficult to ‘focus on only what you can control’ when I read reports of people on the ground in Virginia standing tall and fighting back the hate and racism, while I self-examine that if given the opportunity would I have the decency and strength to do the same.
Sometimes it’s difficult to ‘focus on only what you can control’ when it’s 2017 and demons of this country’s past thought long ago suppressed and moved beyond have risen back up again to give us a grave dose of shocking reality.
It was a somber weekend, and all my respects to the heroism and fight of Heather Heyer.