About
Bearing Witness in the Heartland is a journal-style news blog dedicated to recording the more important news events and changes occurring within our country and to our planet – some hopeful but many fretful – as seen from a rural community outside of Saint Louis, Missouri.
Chronicles
Here under the Bearing Witness Heartland Chronicles we watch and record history as it is happening in front of us, as well as how the future of our country and planet is being manifested, intentionally or not, by our actions and inactions. As has…
Observatory
The Bearing Witness Heartland Observatory blog pages share my modest attempt of trying to make sense of all that is being witnessed, as well as to seek out and explore those topics and trends which are hidden or yet to fully emerge. I am…
Bearing Witness to the Pandemic May 2021
May 1-8, 2021 The month begins with over 32.5 million cases and 575,000 deaths from COVID in the US. However, good news keeps coming as daily new case counts continue to fall in the US below an average of 50,000 for the first time…
Bearing Witness to Climate Change May 2021
In the US, Hawaii has become the first state to officially declare a climate emergency. In a resolution the state legislature has declared that climate change threatens both humankind and the environment. A supporter said that “every day we wait to take action is…
Don’t talk politics doesn’t work!
Over the past few years we have been instructed that the secret to maintaining important relationships in such turbulent times is to just don’t talk politics with family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Only if it was this simple! Have those who offered this advice…
