Thinking about how stressed so many healthy, decent Americans are right now about the dangerously corrupt powers taking things and smashing them. I am also stressed about it, and worried.

And then I think about how we have already been facing, for decades, a danger even more dangerous and life threatening, but has been hitting in places and ways that SEEM less immediate, and so it stays on the periphery, outside of the "ring of danger" that we sense is being traversed by the horrific dismantling of the basic protections that governments have put in place to keep our system going. Some of it; a lot of it, even, being good and just and built up for the maintenance of a decent society (for some; "some" being something that we "privileged" folks like to and mostly strive to keep center stage). But now even that is under siege as the richest seek yet more. It's all truly horrible.

But this enables even MORE of us to push aside the larger wave rising up as an inevitable tsunami, threatening and portending the avalanche to come, in larger and larger doses, and challenging the defenses of our denial. It's scary to think that even more dangerous threats are daily being compounded as we continue our multiple assaults on global ecological balance with our insatiable demands for energy and discounting of the costs to habitability on this earth for humans and most other forms of life which share our ecological home.