theme song: brighter day

[mellowtigger]

I dive deep into topics, but I try to avoid sharing the worst of the spurious rabbit holes. I know not everyone has a tolerance for "doom and gloom". As sort of a counterbalance to my Good News tag, I'll try to limit my future-doom articles to a new Moody Monday concept.  In spite of the many (too many) trends toward disaster that I see in play at present, I want to reiterate that my same instincts ALSO see many good trends as well. I won't downplay the threat. The problems facing us are literal civilization-changing traumas.

But I still see reason for hope, in spite of the cost that we'll pay first.  Maybe it was always this way, with existence ever so precarious.  The only thing that really impressed me from the Popol Vuh was a line from their creation myth (paraphrased from memory), "... and so it was humans who were given memories, to bear time's burden."  We see the patterns of past, present, and future.  We are the sustainers, caring for the future waiting to rise.

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Bookmark this song.  Buy it (I did) for constant replay.  These are strong lyrics for the coming days:

Don't give up when your heart is weary
Don't give up when your eyes are teary
Don't give up when your voice is trembling
When your life needs mendin'
Don't give up when the hurt is near you
Don't give up when the world seems to be broken
I'm still hopin'
With my heart open ayy ay
For a brighter day
...
Don't give up, you just keep on fightin'
Don't give up, you just keep on fightin'
Don't give up
Even when your eyes are cryin'
For a brighter day

That's what I see.  I don't know if I'll survive what I think is coming, but I still see good reason for hope.  Persist.