Issues

a list

Issues that give me issue.

• Daylight saving time

• Climate change

• Plastic

• Women’s rights

• Human rights

• Gun ownership (by too many people)

• Airline travel

• Lack of research on women’s healthcare

• Children who die too early from all causes

• Corporations’ lack of family support/values

• Quitting too soon

• Not quitting soon enough

• Beans, why so much gas afterwards?

• Tailgaters, the ones on roads, not parking lots

• Presidents who cannot complete a coherent sentence

• Bugs, especially in bed

• Vomit

• Spitum

• Sunny warm days when it really ought to be winter

• Noisy crowds

• Long lines

• Germs

• Those not willing to be curious

• Dead house plants

• War

• Allergies

• Not realizing something was the last time until later

• Autocorrect stupidity

• Knowing vs. doing the right thing

• Broken trust

• Wasps at a picnic

Meaningful Monday this week simply means looking at my own issues and gorgeous trees.

May you find a way to deal with Daylight Saving this week… I, for one, will suffer until I get used to it. Or until my dogs do. Whatever comes first.

In the meantime, The Hermitess Papers will arrive on Wednesday. Perhaps with less intrigue than Bridgerton, but my gifts to the world nonetheless.