...and it will shake us to our very core

I have had a lot on my mind lately, and perhaps is why I've broken my 8-month blog silence. The following is the best attempt I can make at addressing any of it. If it doesn't make sense to you, it wasn't supposed to. For those that understand, take it for what it's worth.

It is often easier to place blame on an easy target than to deal with a difficult issue.

If you speak of division, look at where the source lies, not where it is easy to create.

Rumors are rarely true.

In looking to the future, examining the past successes and failures is often the only way to improve.

Childish insults, threats, and barbs have no place in a mature adult's life.

When you speak of promises, remember what you also promised to uphold.

The truth is uncovered when mature people face real facts. Whatever the truth is, be satisfied, for there is no honor among those who hope against reality and do whatever they can to ruin it.

I was hoping for something more enlightening to come from this. Perhaps I will post again as I think of something more readable. I write from the stream of my thoughts, and it has been more of a tangled series of rapids lately. I hope that the end will be peaceful.