My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.
There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.
If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.
There's no religion but sex and music.
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.