photo credit: Cathy Gilbert

I felt myself sinking into an abyss. It happens sometimes. Sometimes I have fallen further than at others. Life has thrown hurricanes and earthquakes, venomous sea creatures and flesh eating, malicious and predatory assholes into my life. OK, that does sound extreme. But there have been extremes. Lately it’s not my personal demons that sink me, it’s the world. It’s everything from the welfare of animals and their torture in slaughter houses in North America, those kept in cages at live markets in countries…