Driving home, Syria on the radio

The radio was on. I was making the 1.5 mile drive back home from Abby's. The news was about Syria, how they are dismantling and destroying their chemical weapons but still finding plenty of other ways to kill each other. It told of neighborhoods in the capital Damascus where not a person walks and every building and house is damaged, bullet riddled, roofs torn off, burned, often destroyed. A new tactic is a food blockade. No items of food are allowed into certain neighborhoods and communities at all. "Surrender or starve!" Civilians are hit hard, often even harder than the rebels the Syrian government seeks to destroy.

"This is my species doing this," I thought. Fundamentally, we are the same whether we live in Syria or the US. I thought of all the anger and hatred boiling in the US right now, and of the politicians, pundits and ideologues who seek to benefit and profit by stirring it up. I'm not saying we're headed toward becoming like Syria, but we are one species, after all.

Text added at 9:41 AM - the Squarespace nightmare continues - day 41 and counting.