what keeps us from falling down?

“Read one newspaper daily (the morning edition

is the best

for by evening you now that you at least

have lived through another day)

and let the disasters, the unbelievable

yet approved decisions

soak in.

I don't need to name the countries, 

ours among them.

What keeps us from falling down, our faces

to the ground; ashamed, ashamed?” 

Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings