Jaunuary 7, 2026 One Week In.

Revulsion.

My whole body shakes with it. I have to turn off and shut down from the TV, from all media. But I can’t, it’s like a car crash or a natural disaster taking place in real time. I feel sick to my stomach. 

Here it is 2026 – a year and a time, when I thought war and hatred would be behind us.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

For the last year, I’ve resisted blogging about our neighbours to the south.

That’s part of the reason I’ve stopped altogether for some time.

But I have to record this moment in time

2026 began when the United States apprehended/kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.  Immediately afterwards, Donald Trump bragged about taking over their oil industry and taking over their country. This goes against international law, and it was against United States laws as well.

But that didn’t stop Donald Trump.

There is no question that Maduro, the president of Venezuela, was a tyrant and a dictator. There’s no debate, he was not fit for the job. Absolutely no question that he’d run his country into the ground. It’s good he is gone.

Had the United States overthrown Maduro and then turned around and declared elections and/or named the previous winner of the last election, Nobel prize-winning leader of the opposition, Maria Machado, president, things would be better. Instead, Donald Trump came right out and declared, the US was taking the oil and running the country. While leaving the same regime in power. I would have thought that the United States learned in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan that it has no place taking over another country.

 Yet here we are in 2026.

If Donald Trump had stopped at just taking over Venezuela. We could have caught our breath. However, immediately following this illegal takeover of a foreign country, he threatened one of his closest allies, Denmark. Donald Trump has declared he wants to take over Greenland. 

THIS President of the United States has brought us closer to a complete international diplomatic breakdown than we have been in over a hundred years. 

Over a hundred years.

Roosevelt, Kennedy, and even Nixon are rolling over in their graves at the sight of what Donald J. Trump has done to the office of the president. I’m pretty sure Reagan would be disgusted as well.

There is nothing presidential about anything that Donald Trump says or does.

For obvious reasons, I have resisted writing those words.

We all know it’s the truth. I suspect even those who support him silently agree.

And then another day comes by, and another arrow pierces my heart.

The video is hard to watch and has given me my latest round of internal aches when I watched it.

An agent with the federal Government of the United States shot and killed someone in the streets of Minnesota.

Donald Trump, instead of offering condolences to her family, called her a terrorist. He lied on television. Again.

There has got to be a better way.

So I find myself caught in the rabbit hole that is facebook. I don’t understand how some intelligent and good people can support such atrocious actions.

But that’s part of the problem.

I don’t understand.

And neither do they.

We are being driven apart by sources, much deeper and darker than we know.

Should I remain silent? Should I shut off Facebook? The news? Shut down the world and go skiing?

Tomorrow, that’s what I’ll do.

I don’t think I can remain silent forever. I will have to speak up and speak out when I see things I believe are wrong.

For now and for tomorrow, I will just breathe and hope…

Hope for a twenty-centimetre snowfall. Hope for an epic day on the ski hill. There is nothing I can do to change anything. It’s not worth the feeling of horror, fear, and shame that courses through my veins. 

I will not go silently into the night. 

I will search for and embrace all that is right.