My friend Paine, on the autism spectrum and on the frontline, continues his observations on our peculiar times:

Its strange, theres all this glum stuff being said on the news, so much in fact that it would make someone want to give up on our country and head for Canada.

Theres two problems with this though, 1) Canada wont take anyone trying to cross the border and 2) running away wont solve any problems, either nationally or individually. Yet I still see a lot of things that give me hope.

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