The Year of Living Minimally - Week Forty-eight

Kind of hard to write this week. I'm not sleeping, because I'm so worried about this country. These poor children and their distraught parents. The daily barrage of hatred and condemnation from the White House, the silent acceptance by the elected Republicans. The false information spread by those who don't take the time to educate themselves to the facts.“I’ve seen several tweets comparing this to Nazis / The Holocaust and saying things like 'this is how it begins.' I teach Holocaust Literature so let me be clear - this ISN’T how it began. This is already several stages along the way.” (Aviva Dautch)“Make no mistake – no matter where you stand on immigration, what we are doing to children and families in the name of the law is evil. And we, as Christ followers, have a moral responsibility to speak and stand against evil. You cannot remain silent.” (Pastor Stan Cardwell of Community United Methodist Church in Crofton, Maryland)Chobani chief executive Hamdi Ulukaya, an immigrant who is known for hiring refugees, tweeted that “separating a child from a mother or father is not political. It is inhumane. It is against everything this country stands for. I have seen it in other parts of the world but never thought I’d see it in the land of the free.”This week I shredded paper and put it in the recycle bin. I used less stuff.