A cool breeze is wafting through Little Egypt. It is very welcome after the intense heat that we have experienced. Rain is in our forecast…a lot of rain. I love rain but it has become a scary occurrence in our new normal. Flash Flood Warnings are increasingly common.

We humans like to become judges. I wonder why more of us did not stand for an election to the judiciary. We have all of the skills other than the law degree. We are into comparative judgment. We compare others to ourselves. Someone told me one time that they felt it was wrong for our government to help hungry kids as no one had helped them feed their kids. The case in this argument is that the parents should get up off their asses…go to work and feed their kids. But the direct problem is that our country has millions of hungry kids… Should we teach the kids to instruct their parents to get a job?

We have a bit of a false template in examining those who are less fortunate than we are. We are often certain that we rose on the ladder of success by our sweat equity. Seldom do we consider those who helped us along the way. Or we make the executive decision that the homeless must be lazy…or they would not be homeless. We fail to consider that much of the homeless population are the precious souls that we used to provide shelter for while they were treated for their mental illnesses and substance addictions. And…before you tell me that substance abuse is not a valid reason for being homeless…do you drink alcohol or smoke or take a plethora of prescription mood-altering medication?

We see those who are seemingly taken in by a would-be dictator an autocratic leader or a cultish personality…and we wonder how that could possibly happen. Perhaps these people are us and we do not recognize the kinship? Just a few times of being marginalized or not heard or not seen or being forgotten can lead to the path of joining others who seem to care about our welfare.

Straw houses are where we live. Secure we are until the wolf comes to our front door. He announces that he will huff and puff and blow our house down…and we laugh to ourselves as we understand that we have done what needed to be done to be safe…as we sit in the rubble our our home…