Letter to the Editor: Happy holidays?

To the Editor:

Just to let you know, Christmas and winter are not Catfish Annie’s favorite time of year. Expectations and disappointments abound as we all pretend we are not having them. Also, this year the truth about climate change has been screaming at us, and we are afraid of trying not to ignore it.

What a strange beast we humans have become. We want to live, but don’t seem to care about what we are going to live on or for how long. I would suggest we try living one day at a time for a while, well maybe just for a week or so. It’s likely to be exhausting as we try keeping our current mode of living out of our heads. However, this is not about our heads. It’s about the heart, the human heart, that has lost so much and gained so little as a species.

As we think about the holiday season this year, let’s look closely at what happened at Standing Rock and the oil pipeline project. All that beautiful effort by thousands of peaceful water protectors, their supporters and Veterans has resulted in a mere inch of give right before Christmas in exchange for losing miles of forever after.

Happy holidays?

Ann Gallagher
“Catfish Annie”
Lansing