Two Words for our Present Circumstances.

Folk #1: Slinging words. Finding the right words, writing them down. Just the act of thinking & writing is important & essential to my well-being. I find that it is a way for me to swim towards some kind of clarity and understanding, even if what I am trying to understand is not really understandable, and clarity is a bit of a chimera. The writing down is a working through, or a working towards; it is a process of trying to process the workings of the world around me. Two words come to mind in the latest thrashings, skirmishes, and ungodly doings and sayings of my fellow human beings. Vile & Depraved. These words point other words: vile = "morally despicable or abhorrent, physically repulsive, foul, disgusting, uttlerly bad." depraved = "marked by corruption or evil, having or showing an evil and immoral character." There are a host of very prominent & powerful folks who have earned these over the top moral judgements. No doubt. I am sure you can guess of whom I am thinking.There are some humans who just make you want to distance yourself from the human species. You want to reach for some other window into the human soul, invoking Demonic & Angelic forces contending in our human bodies, but really, one suspects it is all just typical human behavior. A wide, grand spectrum of human posibility & capability. Demon or Angel, humans can channel both forces and do every day. Yes. When it goes bad it is truly ugly. I mean, even if you don't think of yourself as a moral authority, (and I don't), your simple Humaness makes you want to recoil, & retreat to a certain solitude, and a renewal of good cheer and good will unsullied by the craven bullshit of our present political & social cirmcumstances. You want to lean to your better Angels. Even if you fear an undercurrent, a shadow, in every ray of sunshine. It's a way of staying healthy & sane. Finding, cultivating & embracing those shining moments of goodness & light. It just takes a bit of will, dicipline and determination. Clarity requires us to admit that the worst and best can be found in our species.