It’s easy to become maudlin these days. If we keep our eyes laser-focused, we can’t help but get overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of information that is as noxious as toxic sludge.

It’s enough to make us ill.

We have tuned it out to some degree if we hope to stay sane; how could we get up in the morning and go to work or school, and work toward a future if we can’t imagine there will be one?

Yet, if we glaze over or look away for too long, we run the risk of losing touch with our humanity and becoming numb just the same.

Summer will be upon us soon, surrounding us in a dismal soup that might feel like the inside of a pressure cooker … without an escape valve for steam, we will have to deal with an........

© The Saratogian