Path Of Delightful Distractions

Aww ... fluffy puppies wearing shoes are a delight ...
... as are hints of tranquil blue peeking out from gloomy clouds after a rainstorm.
Cozy houses delight, too.
Autumn leaves with their bounty of bright colours never fail to amaze ...
... even when they're gone we know they'll come back. I never imagined, however, that an unfit climate-change denier and insult to decency would come back to lead the most powerful nation on Earth. This is a waking nightmare for those who recognize the dangers ahead. The America I felt so hopeful about has slipped away and will likely not materialize in my lifetime. So, although I do, it's not easy to find the path to "delight" at this moment, the word prompt from Poets and Storytellers United.
We Canadians have our own faux-populist who has no plans for the environment but is high in the polls due to constant disinformation and catchy slogans like "axe the tax", a carbon tax rebated to low and mid-income folks. Countering such tactics with pictures and words gives me some measure of pleasure but, I suppose, it is just a diversion.
Frankly, the Turkish proverb, old as time, explains delightfully well what we're going through still in modern times. It goes something like this: "The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood, it was one of them."
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  1. ...Maria, I hate to see leaves bagged up waiting for the trashman! I mulch our leaves with the mower and they compost into the soil!

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    1. Yes, though eventually those bagged leaves will be mulched but, in this case, by city contractors to be reused by others as compost and soil.

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  2. Beautiful skies!
    Yes we are living in dark times where ignorance is celebrated. We have to peservere though, somehow.

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