January 6th

 I will write about this once and only here, so that my girls know, and for the record may it be known how the violence on 1/6/21 at the US Capitol hit me. 

Words fail to reach my fingertips. So shocking, so horrific, so deeply disturbing are such things, it renders me speechless. The weight of it all, the density, the gravity, sucks the life out of me. It pulls my mind into a black hole that eats everything and allows nothing to escape. 

None of the words that float to the surface give proper respect and meaning. It is a jumble of unfathomable, unacceptable, hideousness. 

It has caused a profoundly different and repulsive reaction in me whenever I see a flag. I can't even put the three colors together anywhere in my yard, on my body, in my home. My heart is broken. The meaning of Old Glory is decimated and can never be recovered. They beat a law enforcement officer with a flag.

That vicious hypocrisy says it all. 

Good Night and Good Luck