By: Gabriela Yareliz
Rumors of a recession swirl. Our economy has been in a bubble for far too long. Is it time for the long awaited pop and self-correction? Let’s be real, in many ways this has been inevitable. What we chose in the last election was who we want to lead us out of it. It’s time to buckle up. The bubble does have to burst. It’s an inevitable consequence of reckless spending and decisions.
Mahmoud Khalil is fighting deportation. People have been deported for a lot less. People do realize that people with visas can be turned away at the border or point of entry for any reason. Immigration can be an arbitrary thing. Now, it’s a free speech issue. Or is it? It will be interesting to see this play out.
Investigative journalism is back. I have been deep into the Candace Owens Harvey Weinstein series. As I follow different wild timelines and cases, a few things become apparent… things are never what they seem. Take that to the bank with you.
Another common thread is that absent parents mark people in wild ways. For example, so many women who end up seeking older men and exchanging their bodies for things (jobs, security, validation)— most had no fathers. Many of these women become abusers and “victims.” In many ways, people learn to victimize themselves through choices. We do the best we can with what we have, but sometimes our best really fails. Many men who become abusers also have an absent parent. An absent parent wreaks havoc on the universe— often times when the child grows up to be an adult who has not processed or coped with that absence. It shapes our society and certainly the focus of our legal system in many ways. The chain reaction of lives altered by this simple fact becomes WILD. And none of it is justified. It just is. A simple observation. Life after life often destroyed or deeply shaped and so much suffering because someone who should have been there wasn’t.
I keep thinking back to that movie, The Swan Princess, where the villain, Rothbart, flips his cape and he tells the naive, shallow, dumb prince (our hero) that not everything is what it seems. A profound lesson to learn in childhood. Even more life-altering as an adult. It’s truer than true.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 