Hope Springs Eternal

From this photo always speaks to having hope. It's from the Isle of Skye from a trip Bobbie and I took in 2017, when people could travel. It was from a hole in a rock wall ruin of a house that this single, small strawberry grew and produced a single berry. Yikes, I though that sometimes I was having a hard time (COVID all around and all and the current GOV), this plant has lived in a harsh environment and succeed in producing a berry.

Way to go.

These times are the toughest that I ever remember occurring in my lifetime. The government is headed by a gangster, thug (take your pick) and has led to people dying (by their lies and inaction) and at the same time removing the medical and financial safety nets for times like this. History will not be kind to what is happening.

People are resilient, but there are many that will not recover to what existed before. The historians in the future will categorize this administration with that of Franco, Mussolini and Hitler. We now know how such things can occur. Willing by those that do no care for others.

Here is a link to the PBS documentary on Dictator's. This one is on Mussolini :

https://www.pbs.org/video/benito-mussolini-prologue-ibv1rv/

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