Hi again

This blog has become totally scattered and nonsensical, much like my brain. That's fine. I'm just going to keep up the randomness because it's fun for now. I keep trying to devise witty names and taglines, but everything cool seems to be taken, so a sad hamburger I shall remain.

Life keeps plugging along. While I drove home from work this afternoon in a line of scorching-hot Vegas rush hour traffic, I remembered how delightful it is that I am able to do this--go with the flow and be pulled along by the waves of routine and day-to-day living.  I keep thinking of Syria and the people there who have lost all semblance of the mundane. Of course, that leads to thinking of people everywhere who would kill for a bit of ho-hum afternoon driving. My mind fills up with sheer terror when I think about what it would feel like to leave home behind and venture into the desert with little food or water, fewer belongings, and hopefully my family, but maybe not. That is what is happening to thousands of civilians, though while their government and their rebels fight it out. I am not nearly well enough informed to make many valid arguments about this, and I don't feel okay about taking a firm stance that the armed forces should be there because I am not exactly jumping at the opportunity to enlist and fight. I don't think fighting ever solves anything, but I am small and simplistic in the grand scheme of humanity, beliefs, and limited resources. I do feel, though, that I have an ethical responsibility to these people, and that the world does. I also feel that we are on the brink of a third world war. I suppose the world wouldn't be the world without them. We've gotta have something to teach in history class, right? And fodder for another generation of movies.This being human is messy and scary. It's easy to stick my head under a cushy pillow and pretend that everyone is having the same good fortune I am, afternoon traffic and all. I am open to suggestions on how to surface in a meaningful way.