Who's Driving This Crazy Train?

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Today I read an article from The Washington Post about the mother of Alison Parker, a young reporter for a South Carolina TV station who was gunned down along with her camera man Adam Ward during a live morning show segment they were doing. Alison's mother states that she will "make her life's work trying to implement effective and reasonable safeguards against this happening again." What I keep asking myself is why all of the adults around the world aren't doing the same to make the world a better place for our future generations. How bad do things have to get before our "adult responsibility" kicks in and we put an end to anything, everything that does not benefit our world, grow our future? I mean, come ON...who is driving this crazy train?

I have read and listened to many excuses for why things are the way they are (...and by that I mean the litany of news you see here and around the world on a daily basis that is NOT good). I've got to say, this whole mentality of "it is what it is" makes me want to kick the shit out of something! What a cop-out! I realize that state, federal, and global issues are often complicated. Not. The. Point! We, as a species, built the Hadron Collider, the Great Wall of China, put people on the Moon, and have sent probes into deep space, for cryin' out loud! These are complicated things and we did them anyway! You will never convince me that it's just too complicated for us to figure out how to all get along...too complicated for us to STOP polluting our planet...too complicated to just celebrate our differences instead of belittling (or worse) one another for them!

And what am "I" doing, per my role in leaving things better than when I found them? Teaching children (987 at last count) about the world around them and their responsibility to it and each other. Using my voice in as many ways as possible to do "good" things...picking up trash when I see it and it's possible, to leave Nature the way I found her (or better). Think of the world we could live in if the grown-ups around it all worked as ONE to improve it! Why aren't we doing that? "It is what it is"...my ass. It is what we make it and so far, all we've made is a big MESS. I believe we can do better, much better. I believe the children of the world deserve our VERY best. Don't you?

My Grandson Coming Home, 31 Aug. 2015