Gloom's Kryptonite

Despair is no match for hope over the long haul. Can’t blame anyone with doubts. In the short run, the premise is hard to fathom much less accept when there is so much to despair over.

Intractable wars, mounting civilian casualties, so many innocent victims, no end in sight.

Ever-present bigotry more conspicuous now and for good reason; it’s more openly and unapologetically expressed than ever. Ever-present fear of foreigners more pronounced now and for good reason; descendants of immigrants aim indignities and hostilities at today’s immigrants.

Book bans surging as bans of civilian ownership of military-grade weaponry continue to be fiercely resisted, as if learning is a greater threat to our nation’s youth than being shot.

Nature’s ways and needs recklessly disregarded. So many heads buried in the sand, willfully oblivious in the presence of the obvious. A sitting congresswoman says one minute that climate change is “natural” and the idea that it’s due to human activity is a “scam,” the…