In order to observe right speech I avoided the debate last night like the plague. My husband watched, but I told him I did not wish to hear about it. Why put that nonsense in my head? I know it's not a pristine head, and is filled with trivia and bad speech I've heard or read, but at least I have control over this. Instead, this morning in the paper I read about a woman with three horses who risked her life to walk to the barn and save them and stay with them until the fire had passed by. I read another article about an organization that is bringing supplies for animals to one of the fires where the animals are sheltered, so that they have enough food and water and first aid supplies.
There is news out there that is uplifting. In the same paper today someone wrote about a Cooper's Hawk that landed in their back yard and hung out a while. The animal expert said it probably was attracted by thirst and was a bit afraid of their fountain. This story brings compassion and attention to detail about the ramifications of the drought, as the other articles do about the effects of the fires.
And in each case there is something we can do, an action we can take to help the animals. We can write a check or put out water in our yards for wild animals.
And while we feel for the animals affected by these events, we can also truly help. Now with the Republican Party, not so much.
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