The divisions in this country are staggering.

Let us count the ways.

• War
• Politics
• Race
• Wokism
• Pandemic
• Immigration
• Religion
• Gender
• The Economy
• Geography
• And others I'm surely forgetting

The divisions are tearing society apart at the seams. Long term friendships are ending. Families are being broken. Hatred is the new normal. We're on the brink of world war.

Is it learned behavior? Or is it innate to the human condition?

Who benefits from the division?

When is enough going to be enough?

I recently found this quote somewhere on the web, I don't exactly remember where, but it caught my attention and I copied it and saved it:

"Optimism is the only way to win. Despair is aid to the enemy. Resistance is essential, not futile".

We must work together or we are finished. As a society, as a country, as a species.

Sleep? Sleep!

Some cool research has been done recently (within the last 10 or 20 years) on historic sleep patterns by A. Roger Ekirch (see his book At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime, also titled At Day's Close: Night in Times Past).

The news of Jimmy Carter going home for hospice care is tragic, but expected.