Sedona, AZ — What the hell is going on? It feels like we’re all living inside a surreal film that nobody agreed to be in.
Kids shooting each other on the streets. People being killed in churches and classrooms. Political leaders shot to death on stage. Airplanes and helicopters colliding mid-air. Military craft colliding on the open seas. People stabbed to death on commuter trains. People pushed onto the tracks. Genocide in parts of the world. A war of attrition in Europe with no end in sight. Heavily armed soldiers patrolling our neighborhoods. ICE agents and enforcement personnel conducting raids in the places we shop. The threat of nuclear war ever-present.
One newscast after another features chaos and mayhem: rioters on the streets fighting police, fires burning, gang wars exploding in our cities. Unidentified aerial phenomena are reported almost daily, defying the laws we thought governed reality. Natural disasters sweep towns away and burn entire communities. Weather runs amok across the middle of the continent.
And here, in Sedona, we argue over the installation of automatic license plate readers. Police personnel and public officials file complaints against one another. Tourism flatlines, probably because of the state of the planet and because people are rightly reluctant to travel while chaos brews outside their doors.
There is a feeling of unreality, as if we are living inside a dream that grows worse every day while we watch the insanity unfold on our devices. Catastrophe piles upon catastrophe, fed into our fearful minds by those who control the flow of information into our consciousness. All of the above must have a profound negative impact on our collective psyche. Things are happening so fast we barely have time to digest the latest horror before another one takes its place.
But is there anything we can do?
For starters, shut down your devices for at least two hours. Count your blessings for being alive. Hold tight to the safety bars of the roller coaster we’re on and pray this crazy ride will one day end.
- By Tommy Acosta
7 Comments
We’re always being tried & tested. The only difference now, is the speed and ease with which violence, disaster and hatred can befall every single one of us. And it is all man made or caused by the ignorance of man from weapons to climate change the only one we can blame is ourselves.
It was predicted as we started to go into the Age of Aquarius….Some call it the Golden Age.
But before we reach that panacea, everything must be in disorder before its golden.
Id say we arrived at the chaos!
Count your blessings
1) you woke up this morning
2) nobody is shooting at you
3) you have enough to eat
4) hopefully you don’t hurt too much. ( I’m old, the day I wake up and nothing hurts, I’m dead)
As you are alive, you get to accomplish something.
1) Smile, it makes people wonder what you are up to.
2) help someone, hold a door, pet your dog or cat. If you don’t have a dog or cat go to the animal shelter and offer to pet one of their homeless pets. Animals are open to unconditional love,
Realize that the day you die may be the best day ever, even so, you get to live TODAY in one of the most beautiful places on God’s beautiful planet. You’re going to open your eyes and look at this place you get to live.
If you want to bitch at me and argue, do as Tommy suggest and turn off your electronic devices.
Have an AMAZING day.
Great message Tony I must admit. And no lies or disinformation required. I am impressed. Perhaps there is hope for our country after all?
You implied “Tony I must admit. And no lies or disinformation required. ”
Cite specifically what lies and disinformation I have used. Innuendo is weak, be specific.
You stated Sedona has “some of the highest sales taxes in the country.” Sedona doesn’t even make the lists that are out there.
Sedona Sales tax 10.4%
Yavapai County Sales Tax 6.2%
Yavapai County has better services