The politically motivated killings of a democratic politician and her husband over the weekend put a serious damper on what was otherwise an encouraging day – 13.14 million people showing up to unequivocally pronounce, “No kings in America”. The alleged murderer was arrested Sunday night. He’s been identified as a Trump supporter and an Evangelical pastor, which of course has caused ripples throughout the country.

Today at work, we had an emergency preparedness planning meeting. We don’t have earthquakes or tornadoes here, but there is certainly always the danger of a fire, so that was the first thing we discussed. Then, because this is now the normal, we discussed what we would do in case of an active shooter or an ICE raid.

There's this guy online, I don't know his name, who runs a landscaping company. He has posted a bunch of videos where he goes up to a random house in the neighborhood with an overgrown yard and offers to clean it up for free. A good deed, and also, free advertising, right? Many times when he cleans up these yards, he finds sidewalks or driveways underneath all the dirt and the weeds and the overgrown grass and bushes. The path to the home was there, but no longer visible or usable until he cleaned things up.  

Sometimes I wish I didn't feel so much.

I remember learning the ABCs as a child. Not the alphabet, the gospel ABCs: Accept that you are a sinner and you cannot earn salvation on your own. Believe in Jesus, the son of God, who paid for your salvation through His death on the cross. Confess He is Lord over your life. And you shall be saved!

I’m very excited to see the new Superman movie coming out this June. I'm a Superman fan.

"Well, no one really cares about other people. We only care about ourselves."

I was out driving today on my way to work, and I saw a car that was completely wrapped in a giant ad. I immediately assumed that the driver worked for the company that was so colorfully displayed all over his vehicle. Then I remembered a few years ago seeing ads where big businesses were hiring people who were willing to wrap their vehicles like that. Basically, it turned their cars into mobile billboards in order to attract more customers. I don't know if they still do that. If they do, I suppose then it’s possible that he wasn’t actually an official representative of the company, even though he was advertising their business nonetheless.

You know how many news exposés and documentaries they’ve made now that graphically show the horrible conditions of animals in our food industry? I don't, but I assume there are several at this point. I hear they're appalling to watch because the animals are so terribly mistreated.

Sidenote: I put "pastor" in the search bar for an image for this blog post, and every single image that popped up except for three were all men. The three all featured this same woman. Feels kind of appropriate considering the nature of this blog.

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph." - Haile Selassie I

The photos of the men in the prison in El Salvador have been tormenting me for weeks. Men, forcibly shaved, stripped down to nothing, put into cells with bunk beds four stories high, with barely any elbow room, sharing breathing space with other men... I see those pictures and I wonder, what could they possibly have done to deserve this?