So Many Broken Americans

when a person is broken, wounded, what helps those who recover and heal accomplish that?

When you listen to the speeches politicians make about how they vow to promise a better economy, jobs, all that abstract stuff, where are the specific examples of broken people in their district? it seems that the American psychological state is irrelevant to the strength of our country--a so called superpower..  And so very many live in hopeless despair just getting from one day to the next?

There's talk of mental illness as it relates to guns--but what about how it relates to people's general  dispositions for a multitude of reasons, some familial, some societal, some governmental.?

So very very many people in America are tired, dejected, deflated, disheartened...many of them long ago stopped following political discourse--much less a proactive approach to their neighbors. On the street where I live, of amongst a dozen houses, I know not one name.
That shame is not just mine but oh so many of our anonymous neighbors and possible friends. I think TV is  mostly to blame.

Brainmush, Crap, and Spelling Bees!!!

You hear people talk about nothing all the time and you start to feel your brain going to mush. You think well if I have to listen to crap all day I might as well get drunk, too.  It's a defeative, sad, uninspiring, unworldly place that many of us call "home." I keep trying to get my friends (both of them) and my 78 year old mother to get excited about vocabulary quizzes and spelling bees, or to play questions games to make our brains work in different ways, but they all three have reasons or excuses"as to why they just flat out refuse to participate. Spelling bees and "playing school"is something for everybody of any age. Huge governmental educational initiatives will never succeed because it is not in a school classroom where most relevant learning occurs--it is in the moment of glee you feel as you try to spell a thirteen letter long word and you get it right. Really, it's about getting new spark plugs for most every American adult who believes that once they are out of school, the learning part of life is over. Wise  ones know that is far from being true.