Every morning on my 20 minute drive to the office, I rant to myself in my head.

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Every morning on my 20 minute drive to the office, I rant to myself in my head. I argue about current issues, politics, various things in local media, people that irritate me, and other such things. It’s like a ritual. All these words are said in my head as if I were telling someone else my opinion on the topic. So I guess it’s time I actually said these things in a format that actual people could be on the receiving end.

So here I am. I’ll probably write about current issues like gun control, socialism, money, politics, design, mass communication, the public school system, healthcare, history, religion, parenting, people that refuse to work, corporations that insist on controlling the masses, etc. But also lighter things like pop culture. Video games, comic books, TV shows I’m currently watching and things like that. Who knows what my brain is rattling about each day, but some of those rants will be here.

Yesterday was Valentines day. A house blew up in a neighboring town. Three houses actually. People were hurt. A kid shot up a school…..again. Down in Florida. Seventeen people lost their lives. A local Olympian is currently competing in her fourth Olympics. The local news station is saturated in coverage of her. Remington Arms is filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On 700 million dollars. $700 Million. My village just inducted their first female firefighter. Yesterday was also Ash Wednesday.

A child (well, 18 year old) murdered 17 people. Mostly other children. Did that just seem glossed over in that last paragraph? Because that’s how it feels to me. I don’t have a solution and I’m not going to pretend that I do. Should guns be better controlled? Maybe. Should mental health be better addressed? Maybe. Is there a missing puzzle piece that we as humans just don’t know in terms of how to control these tragedies? Probably. But one thing I am pretty sure of is the more normalized it becomes, and the more often we see this happen, the more it’s likely going to keep happening. I don’t have answers, admittingly.

So how did your day go yesterday? 😐