With 2026 now at the halfway point on the so-called modern calendar, current distractions from what’s really happening include the fireworks tents in every parking lot and every wide space along the highway and back road, selling explosives that terrorize our neighbors, pets and livestock. Nothing says, “Happy Anniversary!” like the blasts of mortar barrages all around to celebrate the founding of the United States.
We’re at the halfway point of 2026 as we enter the month of June. At some point in daily conversations, someone has remarked something along the lines of, ‘Where have the days gone, and so quickly!’ So far this year, we were bombarded almost daily with next to impossible-to-understand, or come to terms with, actions that defy all reason and common sense. Actions that threaten our rights as citizens and violate the very foundations, although not perfect, of human rights codified over the years in the country’s founding framework.
April has come and gone, and what a month it was. Aside from the usual springtime preparations for planting, cleaning up around our homes and communities from last fall’s leaves and branches, we take time to get re-acquainted and marvel at the power of nature’s revolving systems that still sustain us. In spite of the damage and degradation from an out-of-control system of extraction, consumption, toxic waste streams, and violence, Mother Earth still nurtures us.
