Slow starts all round…

Well that was a slow start for a new blogger. Then again, I did have some kind of excuse. I had been sick for awhile when I made my first post, and soon after that I discovered that my body had decided to grow a tumor for some reason. So understandably I think, my attention was diverted from an interest in building a blog for awhile.

But the nuisance is out now, and it apparently wasn’t malignant, so my life is getting back to what I’d prefer it to be.

So much has been happening outside my own personal concerns. Here in the county… and out in the world… It seems almost impossible that I’d be able to catch up…

Katrina & New Orleans is an ever present and growing story. There’s been so much horror and despair, so much anger and frustration… Perhaps I can be forgiven for looking for signs of hope even as the dead still wait for recognition and respect.

The hurricane revealed what is usually hidden, to our embarrassment and shame. A democracy neglected, and threatened with decay. Whole communities exiled from their country though they never leave it’s boarders.. Whole classes of us, virtually unrepresented by a government that is supposed to derive its purpose from us…. People unserved by a country that was built on the premise that it exists to serve.

Even here in our own county we suffer the neglect of disenfranchised communities without the power to protect their own interests. It's happening as usual at the hands of the larger community without the will, or understanding, or sense-of-duty to take action, perhapse even to care. I’ve felt helpless as largely from the sidelines I saw the story of SCMH unfold. And now, unless something changes in the county, we get to witness the slow sad decline that privatization of absolutely everything, regardless of the consequences, will inevitably bring about.

But out of sight, out of mind. And what you don’t know can’t hurt you…