Boy is this election an example of wrong speech. Just reading the paper or listening to the radio subjects you to toxic speech. I avoid the television like the plague, but still, it's in the air. Yesterday we were driving up for our grandson's birthday and after we heard some awful bit of news I began singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma, just to clear the air. Because it was a beautiful morning and I did not want it polluted with election ugliness. My friend said on the phone this morning that one of the papers where she lives had a calendar with big Xs marking how many days we have left of this horror. It's like I'm in the middle of a bad dream and can't wake up. My friend's seven year old granddaughter asked about "that man saying bad things about girls". Wow! Even children can't escape the toxicity.
I suggest we all sing at the top of our lungs and drown out the rhetoric that is filled with a Pandora's Box of bad thoughts and feelings. Otherwise, we'll all be crushed by wrong speech, or even worse, start spouting it ourselves.
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