Don't Get Lost in the Maelstrom

Stand fast and hold on to the good in your life!

Don’t get lost in the maelstrom.

That word means …

a situation in which there is great confusion, violence, and destruction

and it has origins in a treacherous current in the Norwegian Sea. (Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe both wrote of it.)

Hell no. Avoid that swirling vortex in the middle.

And this is where we seem to be now in America.

Floating in an oddly familiar moment that feels old and new at once, so used to the chaos are we now. And the water is starting to swirl faster.